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their backs grey. Limbs red. Accessory hoofs present, but very small, far 
smaller than in the Oribis. Tail very short, not blackened at its tip. 
Skull and horns very like those of a Steinbok, but the nasal bones seem to 
be shorter, and the premaxillz do not reach so far backwards. A good adult 
male skull of this species is, however, a desideratum: we have only been 
able to examine immature specimens or those deteriorated by confinement. 
Hab. South Africa north to the Zambesi and Mozambique. 
The Forsters, who visited the Cape in 1775 during their voyage round the 
world along with the great circumnavigator Cook, furnished Buffon with 
notices respecting many of the Antelopes which at that time were met with 
even in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town. Amongst these was the 
present species, which was accordingly described by Buffon, in the Supple- 
ment to his ‘ Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Quadrupédes,’ as the Grysbok 
or “‘ Chéyre-gris.” About the same period as the Forsters the learned 
Swedish naturalist Thunberg visited the Cape, and made himself acquainted 
with this and the other Antelopes of that district. In an article subsequently 
published by the Academy of St. Petersburg on the Mammals met with 
during his stay in South Africa, Thunberg named the Grysbok Antilope 
melanotis, and his specific name has usually been adopted for this species, 
though a subsequently given term grisea of G. Cuvier has also been applied 
to it. 
In his ‘ Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter Saugethiere,’ Lichtenstein 
has given coloured figures of both sexes of this Antelope from specimens in 
the Berlin Museum, probably procured by himself. In the days of Lichten- 
stein (1803-06) the Grysbok was to be found in all the middle and western 
districts of the Cape Colony amongst the hills, and, according to him, was 
particularly esteemed as game on account of its tender and delicate flesh. 
Harris, in his great work on the ‘Game Animals of South Africa,’ has figured 
the Grysbok on his 26th plate, along with the Bushbok and the Blaauwbok ; 
he mentions it as, in his time (1836-37), common in the Colony “among 
the wooded tracts which skirt the coasts.” Describing his hunt with a party 
of Boers, residing not far from the banks of the Knysna, who had given him 
a day’s shooting over their best preserves, he speaks of “ proteas and large 
plots of scarlet geraniums, interspersed with patches of purple heath,” as 
being the “ favourite harbour of the roan Grysbok,” and gives an account of 
