SHARPE’S STEINBOK 
North-East Transvaal, both by Mr C. Grant and Major J. Stevenson 
Hamilton, and as the grysbok seems to be unknown in the latter territory, 
it would seem probable that all the small, dark -red, grizzled antelopes 
inhabiting Southern Rhodesia must be Sharpe’s steinboks, and not 
grysboks; and it has recently been stated that specimens obtained a short 
time ago near the town of Salisbury did, in fact, belong to the former 
species. However, I have the horns of what I thought at the time was a 
grysbok, and which I cut myself from the head of a small antelope which 
was killed in the Umvukwi hills, near Salisbury, in 1891, which certainly 
do not appear to belong to a Sharpe’s steinbok, as they are between 
three and four inches in length. Unfortunately, at that time I did not 
know anything about the distinctions between Sharpe’s steinbok and 
the grysbok, and took the animal in question to be an example of the 
latter species, and I cannot remember whether it had false hoofs or not. 
Further investigation will certainly be necessary before it can be definitely 
settled whether the small, dark-red, grizzled antelopes which are found 
all over the rocky, bush-covered hills and stony ridges of Southern 
Rhodesia are all Sharpe’s steinboks, or whether some of them are not 
intermediate between that species and the grysbok, in that although they 
may be without false hoofs, their horns are identical with those of the 
grysbok. 
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