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Show 2 MR. F. C SEL0US ON A HYBRID ANTELOPE. [Jan. 17, as in the Hartebeest, but yet being slightly lunate in form and ringed as in the Tsessebe. As regards the animal itself, van uooyen tells m e that the colour of its skin on the body, head, and legs was precisely the same as in an ordinary Tsessebe. but that it had tne Head of supposed hybrid Antelope between Bubalis lunata and B. caama. comparatively large bushy tail of a Hartebeest. When it ran, it ran with its tail held out as Hartebeests do, and with the light springy gallop of those animals. There can, I think, be no doubt in the mind of any rational being that this curious animal is a cross between the Hartebeest and Tsessebe Antelopes " " P.S.-You will notice that the prominent rings on the horns 1 a m sending you agree with those which are present just at the backward turn of the horns?of a Hartebeest." |