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Domalis pygarga, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846) ; id. List Ost. B. M. 
p. 59 (1847) ; id. P. Z.S. 1850, p. 141; id. Knowsl. Men. p. 21, pl. xx. fig. 3 
(young), pl. xx. figs. 2 & 3 (adult) (1850) ; id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 127 (1852) ; 
Layard, Cat. S. Afr. Mus. p. 77 (1861) ; Gerr. Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 244 
(1862) ; Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 181 (1869) ; Layard, P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 625, 
footnote (scarcity) ; Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 45, pl. iii. fig. 6 (skull) (1872) ; id. 
Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 116 (1873) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, 
ix.) p. 140 (1887); id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 171 (1892); 
Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 32, pl. vii. fig. 27 (head) (1892). 
Bubalis pygarga, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 209 (1846) ; id. ibid. 
Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. 11. p. 159; Reprint, p. 84 (1848) ; 
Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1852); Brehm, Thierl. ii. p. 217 (1880) ; Ward, 
Horn Meas. p. 69 (1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 202 (1893). 
Alcelaphus pygargus, Sel. List Anim. Z. S. (8) p. 150 (1883) ; Flow. & Gars. Cat. Ost. 
Coll. Surg. p. 273 (1884); Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 295 (1889); Flow. & 
Lyd. Mamm. p. 335 (1891). 
IWhite-faced Antelope, Penn. Hist. of Quad. i. p. 82. 
Vernacutrar Name :—Bontebok of Dutch and English colonists. 
Height at withers about 40 inches. Ground-colour of body, as seen on the 
anterior half of the back, rufous fawn. Crown, sides of face and neck, flanks, 
thighs, and the anterior half of the rump darkened nearly or quite to black, 
which colour also runs down the limbs to the knee and hock, where it passes 
as a dark ring right round the limbs. Face with a large strongly contrasted 
blaze of pure white, which covers the whole breadth of its upper surface on the 
muzzle, but is much narrower above the eyes, where it runs up to the bases 
of the horns. In the young the facial blaze is simply brown. Posterior half 
of rump, base of tail, belly, and lower limbs also white. ‘Terminal half of 
tail, which reaches just to the hock, black-crested. 
Hairs of face reversed upwards to horns. No glandular suborbital brushes. 
Skull narrow and lightly built, its measurements about as in the next 
species. 
Horns somewhat lke those of D. korrigum and its allies, but their 
bases more compressed and twisted inwards towards each other in front; 
above they curve evenly backwards and outwards, their terminal five or six 
inches again gently recurved upwards. Their ridges are 15 or 16 in number, 
very prominent in front, less so on the sides and behind; their substance is 
