PLATE XVII. 
GAZELLA PYGARGA.—THE BONTEBOK, OR PIED ANTELOPE. 
Bontebok of the Dutch Colonists. 
Generic CHARACTER.—Adult male about three feet ten inches high at the shoulder, and nearly six and a half feet in ex- 
treme length. Head long, narrow, and shapeless, with a remarkably broad muzzle. Horns fifteen inches long; black, lyrate, 
divergent, erect; placed on the summit of the cranium, very robust at their base, with ten or twelve incomplete annuli, broken 
in the middle, and striated between. A patch of deep chocolate coloured hair at the base of the horns is divided by a narrow 
white streak, which suddenly widens between the eyes to the whole breadth of the face, down which it passes to the nose. 
Ears long and reddish. Sides of the head, neck, and flanks, deep purple brown, with a reflected cast of crimson. Back 
marked with a saddle of blueish lilac, highly glazed. Legs from the knee and hock downwards, pure white. Belly and inside 
of thighs white, and a Jarge white triangular patch on the croup. Tail reaching to the hocks; above white, with a terminal 
tuft of posteriorly-directed black hairs. A small detached lachrymary perforation. Linear nostrils. Very indistinct muzzle. 
Female. precisely similar, but on a slighter scale, with more slender horns. Mamme two; gregarious. Common in the 
interior, and still found in Zoétendal’s Valley near Cape L’Agulhas. 
