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Show 760 MR. F. C. SELOUS ON AFRICAN ANTELOPES. [June 21, about the loins being often long and curly. The tips of the ears are black. The males alone bear horns, which are ringed to within three inches of the point, and curve slightly forwards. A fine pair will measure 16 inches along the curve. These Antelopes are usually met with in herds of from three or tour to a dozen in number ; but in 1874, on one of the alluvial flats near the mouth of the Chobe, I observed as many as fifty in one herd, and once I saw twelve old rams together. During the period of anarchy, however, which ensued after Sepopo was murdered in 1876, a great many of the natives fled from Sesheke to the southern bank of the Chobe, and during their sojourn there committed great havoc amongst Horns of Cobus vardoni. a. Side view; b. front view. the numerous herds of Pookoo ; so that on m y visit to the Chobe in 1877 I never saw more than ten or a dozen in a herd, and not one for every ten I had seen there in 1874. They are usually found on dry ground close to the water's edge, but when pursued do not hesitate to cross marshes or swim deep rivers. I have often seen Pookoo and Impala Antelopes feeding together, but have never seen the former Antelopes in company with Leechwee, for the reason that on the southern bank of the Chobe near its junction with the Zambesi, where the Pookoo are found, there are no Leechwee, whilst in the swamps on the other bank, where Leechwee abound, there are no Pookoo. 13. COUS LECHE. {Leche, Lee-gwee of the Makalolo ; Inya of the Masubias ; Oonya of the Makubas.) This Antelope is first met with in the marshes of the Botletlie river, |