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The Gemsbok is very rarely seen in captivity, and we are not aware that 
living examples of it have ever been brought to Europe. Mr. Carl Hagen- 
beck, of Hamburg, who has had great experience in such matters, informs 
us that he has never seen this animal alive. 
There is a fine mounted pair of the Gemsbok in the Gallery of the British 
Museum, obtained by Mr. F. C. Selous in the Bamangwato District of 
Bechuanaland, and a frontlet and horns procured by the same enterprising 
hunter on the Botletli River. Besides these there are several older stuffed 
specimens, as also some heads and skins, of which the exact localities are 
unknown. 
Our figure of the Gemsbok (Plate LX-X XIII.) was drawn on the stone 
by Mr. Smit from Mr. Wolf’s sketch, but it is, unfortunately, impossible to 
ascertain from what specimen it was taken. 
May, 1899. 
