. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . tii tants. I lie African Elephani (Elephas afrieanus) kin with sparsely scattered hair. Forehead i lightly i hinder portion of the baek slopes downward The tusk, are iii- incisorjaw. It is reported that a single surviving elephani remains in North Zululand. Fo iy. however, the elephant occurred all over Natal, and the teeth have been dug up in many dities. The cloven hoofed ungulates, known as Artiodactyla, have the third and fourth digitsof equal size, and the; main axis of the limb passes between them. The only indigenous oxdike a
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . tii tants. I lie African Elephani (Elephas afrieanus) kin with sparsely scattered hair. Forehead i lightly i hinder portion of the baek slopes downward The tusk, are iii- incisorjaw. It is reported that a single surviving elephani remains in North Zululand. Fo iy. however, the elephant occurred all over Natal, and the teeth have been dug up in many dities. The cloven hoofed ungulates, known as Artiodactyla, have the third and fourth digitsof equal size, and the; main axis of the limb passes between them. The only indigenous oxdike animal is the Cape Buffalo (Boh caffet). The body ismassive, and thinly covered with black hair. The female is considerably smaller, and somewhatbrown in colour. The horns of the bull are exceedingly heavy and massive. The buffalo livesin herds composed of many females and a few males. The blood of the buffalo, and of certain other large game, appears to sometimes containthe parasite that causes tsetse-fly or Ngama disease ; but the wild animals are immune I. The Cape Buffalo 484 to the disease. Domestic cattle, however, are readily susceptible, and it is considered probablethat the tsetse-fly can carry the parasite on its proboscis from the wild animals to thefarmers cattle, and thus infect them with the disease. Formerly the buffalo was very common over the whole of South Africa, but it hasbecome greatly reduced in numbers. A fair number still remain in Zululand. The Southern Giraffe {Giraffa eapensis) was formerly found in all suitable localitiesnorth of the Orange River. We now pass to the antelopes, and a few characteristic species will be mentioned inaddition to those which actually occur in Natal. tASX List of Horns KeX* 1- -CAPE BUFFALO (Male) • •■ Bos eaffer (Sparr) 2- (Female) 3- -ZAMBESI BUSHBUCK Tragelaphus roualeyni (Cumg) 4- -BUSHBUCK Tragelaphus scriptus (Thomas) 5- -INYALA Tragelaphus angasi (Angas) 6- -SITATUNGA Tragelaphus selousi (Roth.) 7- -KUDU Strepsi
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