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ommended by the local magistrates. The license to shoot 

 Royal Game costs three pounds for one season for persons 

 other than landowners, domiciled in the Province, and 

 twenty-five pounds for those not living in the Province. 



THE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA (Hippotigris zebra). 



This animal was the first species of zebra to be made 

 known to science, and in common with Grevy's Zebra of 

 East Africa is characterized by its assinine appearance, 

 in opposition to the equine build of the Burchelline Zebras. 



It inhabits the mountainous country of the Central 

 plateau of Cape Province, and localized in four districts 

 of the Province, viz., George (4 farms), 330; Oudtshoorn 

 (3 farms), 50; Sutherland (1 farm), 20, and a few in the 

 Cradock district, making a total of not much more than 

 400 individuals left alive in the Cape Colony today. 



Mountain zebras are allowed to be captured only under 

 exceptional circumstances, and as their capture is attended 

 by a certain amount of risk to both horse and rider the 

 price has risen from fifty pounds to sixty-five pounds, ac- 

 cording to the will of the seller. They have to be galloped 

 down and owing to the rough nature of the country they 

 inhabit, few men will undertake the job. A different sub- 

 species (H. hartmannae) inhabits the South West Protec- 

 torate. 



There are several other species of antelope which are 

 becoming scarce, such as the Southern Eland, the Black 

 Wildebeest, the Vaal Rhebok, the Grijsbok, and the South- 

 ern Oribi. 



There is a reserve, known as the Giants Castle Reserve, 

 for the southern Eland on the slopes of the Drakensberg 

 Range in Natal, and there are a few herds in the Kalahari 

 and in that portion of southern Rhodesia bordering on the 



