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opinion that the sexes were produced in about that proportion, and even 
made use of the assumed fact in support of the propriety of polygamy as it 
exists among uncivilized men, asserting that a like disproportion occurred in 
the human species. 
“When Cobus ellipsiprymnus is feeding it has the appearance of being a 
clumsy and unprepossessing animal; but, on the contrary, when excited, it 
is elegant and stately. At such times it holds its head high, and assumes a 
lively and spirited position. Its pace is a gallop, and generally all the 
individuals of the herd rush off at the same time, each making the best of 
its way without endeavouring, as some other of the Antelopes do, to follow 
in the train of a leader. When disturbed they generally fly from the places 
where they are discovered towards the higher grounds of the neighbourhood, 
and if unable to reach them, without passing through water, they manifest 
neither fear nor disinclination to plunge into the stream—hence the origin 
of the name by which they are designated by the colonist. ‘Their flesh is in 
little repute, even with the aborigines, though it 1s not quite rejected; the 
dislike to it arises from its being of a hard and stringy texture, and from 
exhaling a strong urinous odour.” 
As regards the present distribution of the Waterbuck in South Africa, we 
learn from Messrs. Nicolls and Eglington that this stately Antelope is now 
only rarely met with in some of the unfrequented districts on the northern 
confines of the Transvaal in the neighbourhood of the Crocodile River and 
in the low country towards Delagoa Bay. On the coast-lands between the 
Crocodile River and the Zambesi, as also along the Zambesi itself, and in 
most of the streams of northern Matabeleland, these authors tell us it is still 
plentiful. In the low country to the north of Delagoa Bay, traversed by 
Mr. F. V. Kirby, F.Z.S., the Waterbuck, as he informs us in his ‘ Haunts of 
Wild Game,’ is perhaps the commonest Antelope. ‘It is there everywhere 
met with along the banks of rivers and streams, and in and about rough 
stony kopjes near to water, in considerable troops, sometimes as many as 
forty running together.” Mr. Selous, in his ‘“‘ Notes on African Antelopes,” 
published in the Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ for 1881, tells us that 
at that date the Waterbuck was still found on the Upper Limpopo and its 
tributaries, and on the Zambesi and on all its affluents eastwards of the 
Victoria Falls was very plentiful. Mr. Selous states that it is most partial 
to steep stony hills, and is often found at a distance of more than a mile 
