PREFACE. 



game-birds ; and I am indebted to Miss Ellen Barnes 

 for her careful execution of these drawings. Similarly I 

 have to thank Professor Flower and Dr. Giinther, of 

 the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, for 

 permission to photograph certain of the antelopes — the 

 gemsbok, the bushbuck, and the vaal rhebok — in the 

 collection under their care. 



To Mr. T. Haig-SmelHe, C.E., a skilled amateur 

 photographer, my thanks are also greatly due for his 

 excellent photographs, from which these animals have 

 been reproduced, and for three views of Cape scenery 

 at pages 5, 405, and 420. 



The Frontispiece faithfully reproduces a photograph of 

 a true zebra, captured two years since in the mountains 

 of Achter Sneeuwberg, near Graaff Reinet, and is note- 

 worthy as being the first portrait from the life of a mature 

 wild true zebra {Equus zebra). 



I am indebted to Mr. W. MacAHster, of the firm of 

 Wm. Dunn & Co., South African Merchants, for the use 

 of the head of a springbok — the most perfect example of 

 a springbok ewe I have ever seen — from which my 

 pictures of this antelope have been photographed and 

 reproduced. 



Portions of this book have already appeared as articles 

 in the Field newspaper ; other portions in the St. James's 

 Gazette, the Globe, Home Work, and the Surbiton Review. 

 I have to thank the Editors of these papers and magazines 



