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Show 454 MR. T. E. BUCKLEY ON THE [May 15, was more than one species of Duiker; so that the remarks in my former paper can only refer to the eastern variety. Mr. Layard seems to consider that there is another species still, besides the eastern form and that of the Cape colony, which comes from Ovampoland. He thus characterizes them : - " The Eastern form is grey, with a rufous dash between the horns and down the front and nose ; the Western form is all grey, and a different grey from the Eastern; the colonial one is rufous (chestnut), with a dark, almost black, dash down the face, and a tuft of twisted hair between the horns. I am not sure that the others have this." In both my specimens, however, from Matabililand the tuft of twisted hair between the horns exists. ^EPYCEROS MELAMPUS (the Pallah), I. c. p. 283. The Pallah was at one time pretty common in suitable places in the north of Natal; and even yet, I am informed, a small herd of from eight to a dozen individuals exists on the Mooi river, near its junction with the Tuglea, where they are now preserved. STREPSICEROS KUDU (the Koodoo), I. c. p. 284. Concerning the existence of the Koodoo in the Cape colony, Mr. Layard says:-"In 1864 the Koodoo was an undoubted inhabitant of the Swartbergen before noted, to m y personal knowledge; also I heard of it in the forests of Zitzikama, Fish river, and other forests to the eastward. Buckley seems to doubt its still being in the colony." In the 'Cape Monthly Magazine' for November 1875, Gough and the northern part of Bushmanland in the Cape colony are given as localities for this species. ALCELAPHUS CAAMA (the Hartebeest), I. c. p. 285. The same gentleman who showed me the Gemsbock's head, told me that a few Hartebeests were to be found in the same place as the Oryx; and, if I remember rightly, he had brought with him a pair of their horns from that locality. Mr. Layard says that the Hartebeest still lingered in the Beaufort Karoo, between Nelspoort and the Zwartberg in 1864. In Natal I saw a fine herd of these Antelopes, close to Pietermaritzburg, in September of last year, also a small herd of eight or nine on the Biggareberg. ALCELAPHUS LICHTENSTEINI ?, I. c. p. 286. This species of Hartebeest is found along the coast, commencing about 24° S. lat., and goes along to the mouth of the Limpopo. It is again found far inland at Shesheke, a town on the north side of the Zambesi, and a little west (about forty miles) of where the Chobi and Zambesi join. A friend of mine who had just come down from that place kindly presented me with two pairs of horns, male and female. On showing them to a Mr. D u Bois, with whom'l was just about to start on a hunting-expedition, he at once recognized them as the horns of a Hartebeest he had seen some distance north |