SASSARY OR BASTARD HARTEBEEST 



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Head of Siissal))'. Fruni a spccimt'n shot in Mashonalancl Ijy F. C. Selous. 



SASSABY or BASTARD HARTEBEEST (Damaliscus lunatus). 



Incolomo of the Matabele. 

 Ingaloivana of the Basutos. 

 Inkwcko of the Masubias. 

 Inyiuido of the Makalakas. 

 Kaboli in tlie Barotse country and 

 Lake Ngami country. 



Liichu of the Masaras. 



M'tcngo in the Chilala and Chibisa 



countries. 

 Mzanci of the Swazis. 

 Alzauzi of all Zulu tribes 

 U iicJiurn of the Makubas. 



Horns starting obliquely outwards, with a single upward and back- 

 ward lunate curve. Height at shoulder nearly 4 feet. General colour 

 dark chestnut rufous, with the face, shoulders, hips, upper portions of 

 limbs, and tail-tuft black, and the region of the groin and margin of 

 the ears white. 



The sassaby has the reputation — in the opinion of all hunters 

 who have tested its speed — of being the fleetest and most enduring 

 animal in South Africa. Were it not that this handsome antelope, 

 in common with its near relative the Cape hartebeest, happens to be 

 lacking in presence of mind, it would very seldom fall to the sportsman's 

 rifle. The sassaby is not difificult to circumvent. A troop can be often 



