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leader, and they are rarely seen when flying, except in a string, one animal 
upon the heels of another. Their pace is a sort of heavy gallop, and though 
they do not appear to move with rapidity, yet the ground over which they go 
in a given time shows that their progressive motion is far from slow. When 
first they start, they appear extremely awkward, and generate in the observer 
an impression that to overtake them must be no very difficult task. After 
they have advanced a little, however, the apparent stiffness in the joints of 
the hinder extremities disappears, and even the indications of weakness of 
the hinder limbs become so indistinct, that the pursuer is soon satisfied of 
the inaccuracy of his first conclusion. This and the Sassaby are the only 
antelopes of South Africa which exhibit the peculiarity alluded to, and have 
led many to remark their resemblance in this respect to the Hyenas and 
Aard Wolf (Proteles lalandii). In all these animals there is a disproportion 
between the development of the anterior and posterior parts of the body, and 
each of them appears when in motion as if its hinder extremities were too 
weak for the duties they are destined to perform.” 
We now come to the distribution of the Hartebeest in South Africa in 
more modern days. Mr.'T. K. Buckley, who published some interesting notes 
on the range of the large Mammals in South Africa in the Zoological 
Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ for 1876 and 1877, tells us that from being one of 
the commonest animals throughout the Cape Colony it had then become one 
of the rarest. He observed it only on three or four occasions during his 
journey into the interior—once just before reaching the Crocodile River, and 
once or twice in the Colony of Natal. In the south-east he says a few then 
still remained in the Zulu country, but he could not hear of its occurrence in 
Swaziland, where its place seemed to be taken by the Sassaby. 
In 1881 the renowned hunter, Mr. F. C. Selous, in his “ Field Notes on 
the Antelopes of Central South Africa,” read before the Zoological Society, 
described the present abode of the Hartebeest as follows :—‘ The range of 
this Antelope is very similar to that of the Gemsbuck. It is still found in 
Griqualand West, in some parts being fairly plentiful. All along the eastern 
border of the Kalahari desert it is also to be found, and extends as far east 
as the river Serule on the road from Bamangwato to Tati. In the neigh- 
bourhood of the salt-pans lying between the Botletlie river and the road from 
Bamangwato to the Zambesi it is very plentiful and may be met with in 
large herds. It does not, however, extend its range to the north of these 
