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ta eee. BLESSBOK. 
DAMALISCUS ALBIFRONS (Boxcn.) 
[PLATE IX.] 
Antilope albifrons, Burch. Travels, ii. p. 335 (1824); Wagn. Schr. Siiug. Supp. iv. 
p. 413 (1844), v. p. 448 (1855). 
Gazella albifrons, Harris, Wild Anim. S. Afr. (fol.) pl. xxi. (animal) (1840). 
Damalis albifrons, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846) ; id. P.Z. S. 1850, 
p. 141; id. Knowsl. Men. p. 22, pl. xxii. fig. 1 (animal) (1850); id. Cat. Ung. 
B.M. p. 129 (1852) ; id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 45 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B.M. 
p- 116 (1873) ; Layard, Cat. S. Afr. Mus. p. 77 (1861) ; Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, 
p- 181 (1869) ; Drummond, Large Game S. Afr. p. 425 (1875); Nicolls & Egl. 
Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 31, pl. iii. fig. 9 (head) (1892); Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. 
Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 171 (1892). 
Bubalis albifrons, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 210 (1846) ; id. ibid. 
Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. 11. p. 159; Reprint, p. 84 (1848) ; 
Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1853); Brehm, Thierl. iii. p. 217 (1880) ; Ward, 
Horn Meas. p. 68 (1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 202 (1893). 
Alcelaphus albifrons, Buckley, P.Z.S. 1876, pp. 286, 292 (distribution) ; Sel. List 
Anim. Z.S. (8) p. 149 (1883) ; Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 295 (1889) ; Flow. 
& Lyd. Mamm. p. 335 (1891). 
Vernacutar Names :—Blessbok of Dutch and English colonists ; Nunni of Bechuana 
natives (Harris); Inoni of Kaffirs (Drummond) ; Inoni or Inpemfu of Zulus 
(Rendall). 
Similar to D. pygargus in nearly every respect; but the rufous ground- 
colour is much more widely extended, owing to the parts which are black in 
that animal being here scarcely darker than the rest. White blaze on face 
divided into two parts by a narrow line between the eyes. Posterior half of 
