(hybrid with Damaliscus lunatus); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 196, fig. 37 (animal) (1893).
Boselaphus caama, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846); id. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 139; id. Knowsl. Men. p. 20, pl. xx. fig. 2 (animal) (1850); Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 170 (1863); id. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 52, figs. 4 & 5 (horns).
Alcelaphus caama, Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 124, pl. xvi. figs. 1–3 (skull and horns) (1852); Gerr. Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 243 (1862); Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 44 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 115 (1873); Buckley, P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 285 & 292; 1877, p. 454 (distribution); Rütimeyer, Rind. Tert.-Epoch. p. 47 (1877); Selous, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 763 (distribution); id. Hunter’s Wanderings, p. 224, pl. vii. figs. 5 & 6 (head) (1881); Scl. List Anim. Zool. Soc. (8) p. 148 (1883); id. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 411; Flow. & Gars. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. ii. p. 272 (1884); Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 139 (1887); Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 291 (1889); Lyd. Field, lxxvii. p. 858, fig. 1 (animal) (1891); Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 335, fig. 137 (animal) (1891); Scl. f. Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. ii. p. 170 (1891); Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 171 (1892); Distant, Transvaal, p. 12 (1892); Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 505 (1893) (Kalahari Desert).
Vernacular Names:—Hartebeest of Cape Dutch and English; Khama of Bechuanas, and the same, with a click, of Masaras; Ingama of Makalakas (Selous); Inhluzele of Zulus (Drummond).
Size large; height at withers about 48 inches. Suborbital gland present, and provided with a distinct tuft. General colour brownish fulvous, darker than in any of the previous species; face with a black blaze running up to the horns, but interrupted between the eyes; back of neck with a dark line from the horns to the withers; chin blackish, outer sides of shoulders and hips black. These darker markings are not visible in the young. Lower part of rump behind whitish or yellowish, contrasting markedly with its dark upperside.
Skull with the frontal part excessively elongated and narrow. The measurements of a fine skull in the Leyden Museum are as follows:—basal length 17·6 inches, greatest breadth 6·1, orbit to tip of muzzle 12·7; facial length 19·3, breadth of forehead below horns 5·1.
Horns diverging evenly outwards at their bases, so as to form a
when viewed from the front, then curved forwards and upwards, and finally bent sharply backwards so as to form almost an abrupt right angle behind the last bend. Good horns attain a length of about 22 or 24 inches.
Hab. South Africa, south of the Limpopo River, but extending further north along the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Now nearly extinct in the Cape Colony; still found in the Transvaal.