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Id Denham and Clapperton’s Travels I regarded this species as the 
Koba of Buffon, and H. Smith and Dr. Sundevall are of the same 
opinion: but on comparing the six pairs of horns of this species 
which I have been able to examine with Buffon’s figure and descrip¬ 
tions, I find them all longer and much thicker at the base than Buf¬ 
fon describes them ; the thinner (a female ?) being 7 and the others 
9 or inches in circumference, while that which Buffon described is 
only 5 inches. The rings are also more elevated, and reach nearer to 
the top than in Buffon’s figure. All the characters lead me to believe 
that the horns figured as those of the Koba by Buffon belong to Da- 
malis Pygarga. They afford very good venison. 
Colonel Hamilton Smith, in c Griffith’s Animal Kingdom,’ de¬ 
scribed and figured the heads brought home by Messrs. Denham and 
Clapperton as A. Senegalensis, but they are different from the one 
so called by Cuvier. Mr. Ogilby, in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoolo¬ 
gical Society (1826,103), proposed to call these heads, A. Corrigum. 
Under the name of Antilope Koba , Schinz (Syn. Mam. ii. 407) 
combines the A. defassa, Riippell, Damalis Senegalensis and Antilope 
adenota , H. Smith, the Koba of Buffon, and the Antilope Koba or 
Caama of Erxleben. 
Horns regularly lyrate, parallel at the base ; face of adult 
white. 
3. Damalis Pygarga. The Bonte Boc. 
Purple red, outside of limb dark ; rump and face white : fawn pale 
yellowish brown. 
Antilope Pygarga , Pallas.— Bonte Boc or Pied Antelope , Gazella 
Pygarga, Harris, W. A. A. t. 17.— Bubalis Pygarga , Sundev.— 
A. Dorcas, Pallas.— Antilope {Gazella) Pygarga, H. Smith.— Da¬ 
malis Pygarga, Gray, Knows. Menag. 21. t. 20. f. 3, young; t. 22. 
f. 2 & 3, adult. 
Half-grown, face whitish. 
A. personata, Wood, Zool. Journ. ii. t. 
Inhabits S. Africa. Brit. Mus. 
Male: bright purple red, face whitish, dark-edged, with a dark- 
edged white streak to between the horns; legs whitish, upper and 
lower part brown varied ; temple and upper part of the throat 
whitish ; rump to above the tail pure white ; tear-bag round, distinct, 
moist. The female is similar, but the throat and under part of the 
body are white. These animals are often brought to the Cape market 
for food. ^ 
4. Damalis albifrons. The Bless Bock. 
Purplish red; face and back of thighs white ;* rump like back. 
Bless bole or Antilope albifrons, Burchell, Trav. ii. 335 ? ; Harris, 
W. A. A. t. 21.— Bubalis albifrons, Sundev.— Damalis albifrons. 
Gray, Knows. Menag. 22. t. 22. f. 1, half-grown. 
Inhabits S. Africa. 
A half-grown specimen was darker, with a pale spot between the 
horns, separated by a dark spot from the white on the face; the 
