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Show 1881.] MR. F. C. SELOUS ON AFRICAN ANTELOPES. 749 colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal, and thence along the Marico and Limpopo rivers to Bamangwato, at last reached Tati, on the south-western frontier of the Matabele country, in August. Here I remained hunting on several tributaries of the Limpopo until the following December, when I trekked down to the Diamond Fields, returning to Tati again in April 1877. I then started at once for the Zambesi, reaching Daka in May. From that date until the end of October I was hunting on the Chobe in the neighbourhood of the Sunta outlet, and in the country between the Chobe and Mababe rivers. In Nov. 1877, after sending m y waggons to the Matabele country, I crossed the Zambesi on foot at " Wankies " town, and, following its northern bank, reached the mouth of the Kafukwe in December. From here I struck to the north-west through the mountains beneath which the Kafukwe runs, and, travelling over the Manica plateau, reached "Sitanda's" town, situated near the swampy Lukanga river, in January 1878. In February I again reached the mouth of the Kafukwe river, and in the following month, crossing the Zambesi a little to the west of the mouth of the Sanyati (a tributary from the south), struck due south across country, and reached the Matabele country once more in May 1878. Here I was detained doing nothing through ill-health until August, when I made a hunting-trip to the northeastern part of the Mashuna country in the neighbourhood of the Ganyane river, returning to the Matabele country in the end of December. I then went down to the Transvaal, and getting back to Bamangwato in April ] 879, started on a hunting-expedition to the upper Chobe. Travelling through the desert to the Botletlie river, I followed its eastern bank for some distance and then struck across to the Mababe river, which I reached early in June. From this time until December I hunted on the Machabe, Sunta, and Chobe rivers, and then travelling through the great saltpans into which the Botletlie runs, reached Bamangwato again in Janaury 1880. I then went down to the Transvaal and Diamond Fields, and in the end of May got back to the Matabele country again, and at once started on my last hunting-expedition to North-eastern Mashuna land, where I remained hunting until the end of the year. On leaving Mashuna land I travelled down country, and, skirting the western border of the Transvaal, reached the Diamond Fields in February 1881. After this slight sketch of m y routes, 1 proceed to give m y notes upon the various Antelopes which I met with during these expeditions. 1. OREAS CANNA. (Eland of the Dutch and English ; Pofo of the Bechuanas ; Impofo of the Amandebele ; Ee-pofo of the Makalakas; Mofo of the M a - shunas; Insefo of the Masubias and Batongas ; Oo-schefo of the Macubas ; Doo of the Masaras.) The Eland is now extinct in the Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, Griqualand West, and the Transvaal, and almost so in all the countries watered by the tributaries of the Limpopo, to the west of the Matabele country. In the Kalahari desert to the west of |