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author who gave it a scientific name, and he wisely chose for it that of 
“‘capreolus,’ following the precedent of the vernacular. In this he was 
followed by Thunberg, Afzelius, and other subsequent writers on the 
Antelopes, and the name has been mostly accepted and appended to the 
generic term Pelea bestowed upon it by Gray in 1850, taken from “ Peeli,’ 
the Bechuana name of this Antelope. 
In 1822, however, Desmoulins, in his article on Antelopes in the ‘ Diction- 
naire Classique d’ Histoire Naturelle,’ redescribed the species as Antilope lanata, 
from specimens transmitted to Paris from the Cape by Delalande ; and two 
years subsequently Burchell, who had met with this Antelope during his 
travels in Bechuanaland, gave it the new name Antilope villosa; but neither 
of these appellations has attained much circulation. 
The earliest recognizable figures of the Vaal Rhébok were published about 
1829, when Lichtenstein gave representations of both sexes in his ‘ Darstellung 
der Thiere’ from specimens in the Berlin Museum. 
This species appears to have qualities that enable it to resist the 
advancing tide of civilization better than some of its kindred, and is conse- 
quently still found scattered over wide districts of the Cape. Mr. W. L. 
Sclater, who has kindly sent us an account of the present distribution of the 
Antelopes still existing within the limits of the Colony, gives us the following 
list of actual localities of the present species:—In the west, Namaqualand, 
Clanwilliam, Malmesbury, Caledon, Bredarsdorp, Zwellendam, Riversdale, 
Ceres, Sutherland, Prince Albert, Beaufort West, Carnarvon, Kenhardt, and 
Pruska (scarce) ; in the middle districts, Mossel Bay, Middelburg, Colesburg, 
and Albert; in the east of the Colony, Bathurst, Albany, Tembuland, Barkly 
East, Griqualand East, and Queenstown ; and in the north, Great Namaqualand, 
Kimberley, Barkly West, and Herbert. 
Besides these districts of the Cape Colony we shall presently see that the 
Vaal Rhébok is also found in the Orange Free State, the Transvaal, Natal, 
Mashonaland, and Matabeleland, and in the adjoining districts up to the 
Zambesi. 
In the days of Harris (1836-37) we learn from his ‘ Portraits’ that the 
* Rhébok,” as he calls it, was extremely common throughout the Cape 
Colony, even in the more thickly inhabited cantons. ‘Never entering the 
forest,” he tells us, “ but residing chiefly among rocky glens and mountain- 
passes, the Rhébok inhabits the vicinage of little stagnant pools that have 
