. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . t the year 1799. But this antelope must have been very-scarce for some time before. Barrow, a thoroughly competent observer,who journeyed through Swellendam in 1797, mentions in his Travelsthat none had then been heard of for ten years past. Indeed Barrowbelieved that the animal was then quite exterminated. Le Vaillant, thatlively but not always accurate Frenchman, states in his book that he shota specimen in 1781, and gives a picturesque description of his Le Vaillants accounts are not always to be trusted
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . t the year 1799. But this antelope must have been very-scarce for some time before. Barrow, a thoroughly competent observer,who journeyed through Swellendam in 1797, mentions in his Travelsthat none had then been heard of for ten years past. Indeed Barrowbelieved that the animal was then quite exterminated. Le Vaillant, thatlively but not always accurate Frenchman, states in his book that he shota specimen in 1781, and gives a picturesque description of his Le Vaillants accounts are not always to be trusted. Hemay have procured and probably did procure and bring home a skin ; infact I believe the specimen in the Paris Museum was brought by him toEurope. But his narratives of sport are, to those who know his history,not always 1 Le Vaillant has been convicted of faking bird skins in the most outrageous manner, and hisaccounts of adventure and hunting were stoutly denied and laughed at by his Dutch contemporaries at Great &lSmall Game or Africa. r\AV;;:, ?.:,:.1iafco Lt PLATE XII Common Eland Head (male). +. Sable Antelope Head (male). West African Eland Head (male). 5. Sable Antelope Horns (female). Common Eland Head (female). 6. Roan Antelope Head (male). 7. Roan Antelope Horns (female). Blaauwbok Eland 419 The general colour of the blaauwbok was bluish-gray, the front of theface, the thin reversed mane, the outer parts of the ears, and the fronts ofthe lower portions of the legs being rufous brown ; the under parts, upperlip, and a space in front of the eye whitish. The face and head were notmarked conspicuously, as in the true roan antelope, and the ears, which werelong, lacked the black tufts noticeable in the more northern species. Thehorns, however, were distinctly like those of the roan antelope, althoughsmaller and less robust. Those of the example in the Paris Museummeasure 21-^ inches over the curve. The same specimen, a male, measures45 inche
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