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Show 1877.] MAMMALS O F S O U T H AFRICA. 455 of Delagoa Bay, and called them by the native name of " Nondo." Speke and Grant found them common in Central Africa, in several localities; they are apparently local, as they have not been observed at the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi. The horns of this species are a good deal smaller than those of A. caama, and are very much flattened at the base. In the ' Cape Monthly Magazine ' for November 1875, this species of Hartebeest is apparently mentioned under the name of Maak Hartebeest, and the coast district between the Limpopo and Zambesi is given as one of its habitats. CONNOCHETES GNU (the Common Gnu), I. c. p. 286. According to the November number of the * Cape Monthly Magazine,' a small herd of this animal is preserved on one of the large farms in Victoria, West division, in the Cape colony. In the Table at the end of m y former paper, p. 272, under this heading, "south" must be substituted for "north;" and the same mistake occurs also lower down, under the heading Hippotragus equinus. ORYX CAPENSIS (the Gemsbock), /. c. p. 289. Mr. Layard corrects a statement of mine, to the effect that the Gemsbock is found at Cape L'Agulhaz ; this it appears is not so, as he himself knows the country about there well, and has hunted all over it. While at Cape Town 1 met with a gentleman who had just returned from Little Namaqua Land, where he had been successful enough to shoot a male Oryx ; and he kindly showed me its head. This is now probably the only place in the Cape colony where this species exists. I have been told, too, that the Oryx is found in the north-eastern part of the Transvaal, and sparingly north of Delagoa Bay. The Hon. W . H. Drummond, in his book on the Large Game of South and South-east Africa, mentions the Gemsbock as occurring a little to the north of the Sutu river, in Amaswazi Land ; this would be a little north of 27° south latitude, and 32° east longitude. BUBALUS CAFFER (Cape Buffalo), I. c. p. 289. While I was at the Cape, waiting for the steamer to take me onto Natal, I heard of a man who was going down to the Knysna to try and shoot Buffalo there; and in Mr. Layard's letter, he says that the Buffalo "was certainly still found in the Knysna and all the great forests of the eastern provinces up to the date of m y leaving the Cape in 1870." In Natal, besides the herd mentioned in m y paper, I have since been informed that a few are still supposed to exist on the range of hills between Natal and Moschesh's country, where the Umkomazi and the Umzinkulu rivers rise: this is one of the wildest and least-known parts of that colony. In the ' Cape Monthly Magazine' for November 1874, a writer on Antelopes states that " a remnant still roams through the Tzitzi-kama forest." |