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Zebra (Equus zebra) are still occasionally to be met with in one or two remote 
districts of South Africa, it would seem that the Blue-buck and the Quagga, 
as living creatures, have utterly perished from the face of the earth, and are 
only now represented by a few specimens in some of the principal museums 
of Europe. 
Although the “ Blaauwe-bok” or ‘“ Blau-bok” was long known to early 
travellers at the Cape under its vernacular names, the great Russian naturalist 
Pallas was the first to register it definitely in the ‘Annals of Science.’ 
Under the name Antilope leucophea Pallas described it in 1766, in his 
‘Miscellanea Zoologica,’ from a specimen in the Leyden Museum*, and 
placed it as the first species of his genus Antilope. We have already, however 
(Book of Ant. III. p. 3), given the reasons why another species—the Black- 
buck of India—should be deemed to be the type of Pallas’s generic term 
Antilope, and in accordance with ordinary usage we employ Sundevall’s name 
Hippotraqus for the present species and its allies. 
The next author after Pallas to mention this Antelope appears to have 
been Allamand, who made various contributions to an edition of Buffon’s 
‘Histoire Naturelle,’ issued in Holland by Schneider in 1766 and the 
following years. Allamand, however, carelessly confounded this South- 
African Antelope with the Gazella gutturosa of Siberia, of which the native 
name is Tzeiran or Dzéren (see Book of Ant. III. p. 84), and adopted the 
same name for it. Allamand’s figure of his “Tzeiran” was taken from a 
mounted specimen in the Cabinet d’Histoire Naturelle of J. C. Sylvius von 
Lennep, of Harlem, which on the death of the owner had passed by bequest 
to the Société Hollandaise des Sciences of that city. This specimen, when 
in skin, had been obtained from a dealer who did not know whence it came, 
but from the mode of its preparation it was believed by Allamand to have 
been brought from the Cape. 
Our countryman Pennant, in his ‘ History of Quadrupeds,’ of which the 
first edition was published in 1781, gave a third original description of this 
species, which he called the “Blue Antelope.” It was taken, he tells us, 
from a skin bought at Amsterdam, and said to have been obtained from the 
Cape of Good Hope. Pennant fully recognized its identity with Buffon’s 
“ Tzeiran,” and remarked on the use of this erroneous Asiatic name for it. 
* See Temminck’s footnote, Esq. Zool. s. 1. Cote de Guiné, p. 192; and Jentink, Mus. de P.-B. 
x1. (7) p. 166. 
