. The sportsman in South Africa. The haunts, habits, description, and the pursuit of all game, both fur and feather, found south of the Zambesi (including the Cape colony, Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Natal, and Damaraland), at the present day, with brief notices of the best known fresh and salt-water fish. Game and game-birds; Hunting. THE SPORTSMAN IN SOUTH AFRICA. 57 their base would represent a triangle ... Of the known genera of antelopes, none approach this singular type more nearly than the Tfagelaphus. Iragelaphus has, likewise, horns trihedral in shape at the base, and, if we imagined the
. The sportsman in South Africa. The haunts, habits, description, and the pursuit of all game, both fur and feather, found south of the Zambesi (including the Cape colony, Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Natal, and Damaraland), at the present day, with brief notices of the best known fresh and salt-water fish. Game and game-birds; Hunting. THE SPORTSMAN IN SOUTH AFRICA. 57 their base would represent a triangle ... Of the known genera of antelopes, none approach this singular type more nearly than the Tfagelaphus. Iragelaphus has, likewise, horns trihedral in shape at the base, and, if we imagined the longitudinal axis of the horns of our specimen twisted outwards, a form of horn would be produced which could not be separated from Tragelaphiis. And there is no doubt that the ancestral form of Tragelaphus must have resembled or been identical with our type. But without being acquainted with the cranial, dental, or other characters, it would seem to me premature to offer an opinion as to its generic relations, or even to give a distinct generic term, much as the shape of the. !â ig- 37-âThe TniANGUL^vTED-HonNED Antelope (Antilope triangularis). horns differs from that of all other known antelopes. It therefore seenis to me to be sufficient to distinguish it for the present as a species of Antilope in the Cuvierian sense, viz., as Antilope triangu- ; In addition to Dr. Giinther's remarks, it may be interesting to observe that five years ago Mr. H. Boyne (a well-known trader in Sichele's country) had a pair of horns almost exactly resembling those above described, and from whom they came into the possession of one of the authors, but it is regrettable that they were subsequently mislaid. Mr. Boyne was unable to state from whence they originally came, but those of Sichele's people who saw the specimen were unanimous in delaring that they at one time adorned the head of a cow Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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