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Hartebeest, its horns partake of the characters of both the supposed parents. 
They stand nearly straight up from the skull as in the Hartebeest, but are 
slightly lunate in form and ringed as in the Sassaby. Mr. Selous was informed 
that the general colour of its skin was precisely that of the Sassaby, but that 
it carried the comparatively large bushy tail of the Hartebeest. As hybrids 
amongst the larger mammals are excessively rare in a wild state, this occurrence 
is well worthy of record, and we have to thank the Zoological Society for 
kindly permitting us to use their woodcut to illustrate it. 
Besides the typical frontlet of this species in the British Museum, already 
mentioned, there are a mounted pair in the Gallery obtained by Dr. Andrew 
Smith, and skeletons of both sexes made from specimens shot on the Manyame 
River, Mashonaland, by Mr. Selous. 
The Sassaby is rarely seen in captivity. So far as we know, the only 
specimens ever brought alive to Europe are two females imported by Mr. C. 
Reiche, of Alfeld, from the Transvaal in 1888. One of these was sold to the 
Amsterdam Gardens (where Sclater inspected it in April 1889), and the other 
to the Antwerp Gardens. 
Our figure of this species (Plate X.) was put on the stone by Mr. Smit 
from a sketch made for Sir Victor Brooke by Mr. Wolf. 
January, 1895. 
