q : PLATE XXI. 
GAZELLA ALBIFRONS. THE BLESBOK, OR WHITE-FACED ANTELOPE. 
Blesbok of the Cape Colonists. Nunni of the Bechuana. 
Generic Cuaracter. — Adult male three feet eight inches high at the shoulder, a six feet three or four in extreme 
length. Head long and narrow, terminating in a broad and bluff muzzle. Horns from twelve to fifteen inches long, erseciah 
white, very robust. at the base ; divergent, erect on the summit of the cranium, with ten or twelve knobs or semi-annuli on 
the anterior edge. The colours throughout are so singularly disposed and contrasted, that the animal conveys the appearance of 
having been artificially painted with divers hues laid on in separate masses. The sides of the head, cheeks, and whole of the 
neck, are of an intense purple chocolate, or venous blood-colour. The horns are divided at their base by a diamond-shaped 
stripe of the purest white, which, suddenly expanding between the orbits to the whole breadth of the face, passes down the 
nose to the muzzle, thus forming a perfect dlaze. The back and shoulders hoary blueish white, thickly overlaid as if with a 
glazed or japanned saddle. A cast of rose colour upon the spine. A broad brown band passes from the fore-arm along the 
flanks; thence extending over the crupper and haunches, as well as down the whole outside of the hind, and very nearly the 
whole outside of the fore-legs. The inner side of all the legs snowy white, with a cross-band of brown. Belly and buttocks 
white. 
A shade of the latter colour along. the chest before each arm. Lars long, taper, and white. Tail seventeen inches in length, 
reaching almost to the hocks, with much posteriorly directed wavy brown and grey hair. Long linear nostrils; very indistinct 
muzzle. Small circular lachrymary perforations. 
Female precisely similar, but slighter, less vividly coloured, and possessing more slender horns. Mamme two. Very gre- 
garious. 
plains south of the Vaal river in astounding herds. 
A white patch covering each elbow, and one above the tail, either surrounded by a border of bright rufous or sienna. © 
Inhabits the elevated tracts to the eastward of the Colony known as the Bontebok flats; and is found on the great- 
