BUBALINE HARTEBEEST.
A small species, found in Syria as well as in North Africa.
Bontebok and Blesbok Group.
Nearly allied to the hartebeests are certain other antelopes, of which it will be sufficient to mention but two species—viz. the Bontebok and the Blesbok. These two antelopes, though doubtless distinct, since their points of difference are constant and unvarying, are nevertheless so much alike, and evidently so closely allied, that I look upon the former as a highly coloured and specialised race of the latter. The blesbok once had a far wider range than the bontebok, and ran in countless herds on the plains of the northern districts of the Cape Colony, the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal, Griqualand West, and British Bechuanaland, whilst the latter animal has always been confined to the sandy wastes in the neighbourhood of Cape Agulhas, the extreme southern point of Africa.
Photo by Percy Ashenden] [Cape Town.
BLESBOK.
A species formerly very numerous in South Africa, but now well-nigh exterminated.
Photo by J. W. McLellan] [Highbury.