“The speed of this Antelope is very great, and when thoroughly alarmed they will cover the roughest ground in the most airy and graceful fashion, striking the earth with all four feet together, and springing up with immense bounds like an india-rubber ball. Their tenacity of life is also remarkable, and I have known them travel a long distance with several bullets in different parts of their bodies. The hunter who would be successful must in consequence possess a good rifle and hold it very straight. “They vary in colour from a light tawny red to chestnut. Age has probably something to do with this, though the males are usually darker than the females, and they are inferior both in size and strength to _B. jacksoni_ further north. “The cows calve during the latter part of November and December, and on several occasions I have come across their young lying concealed in the long grass, whilst the anxious mother was watching the proceedings from a short distance.” Our coloured illustration of this species (Plate III.) has been prepared by Mr. Smit from a mounted specimen in the British Museum, which was brought from the Kilimanjaro district by Mr. F. J. Jackson. There is in the same collection a head from the mountains of Taita, obtained by Mr. J. Wray. _May, 1894._ [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES. PL. IV. _Wolf del. Smit lith._ _Hanhart imp._ The Cape Hartebeest. BUBALIS CAAMA. _Published by R. H. Porter._] 6. THE CAPE HARTEBEEST. Bubalis Caama (G. CUV.). [PLATE IV.] _Hartebeest_, =Sparrm. K.= Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1779, p. 151, pl. v.; =id.= Voy. to Cape (Engl. transl.) ii. pp. 96, 199, pl. i. (1786). _Le Caama ou Bubale_, =Buff.= Hist. Nat. Suppl. vi. p. 135, pl. xv. (1782). _Antilope bubalis_, =Schr.= Säug. pl. cclxxvii. (animal) (1787) (and in part of other early authors, not of Pallas). _Antilope caama_, =G. Cuv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. ii. p. 242 (1816); =Desm.= N. Dict. d’H. N. (2) ii. p. 196 (1816); =Goldf.= in Schr. Säug. v. p. 1174 (1820); =Schinz=, Cuv. Thierr. i. p. 390 (1821); =Burchell=, Trav. i. p. 420 (1822); =Desm.= Mamm. ii. p. 467 (1822); =Desmoul.= Dict. Class. i. p. 444 (1822); =Less.= Man. Mamm. p. 382 (1827); =Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 474 (1829); =Waterh.= Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z. S. (2) p. 41 (1838); =Less.= N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 180 (1842); =Wagn.= Schr. Säug. Suppl. iv. p. 469 (1844), v. p. 444 (1855); =Schinz=, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 443 (1845); =Gieb.= Säug. p. 297 (1859); =Drummond=, Large Game S. Afr. p. 425 (1875). _Antilope dorcas_, =Thunb.= Mém. Ac. Pétersb. iii. p. 316 (1811). _Cerophorus (Alcelaphus) caama_, =Blainv.= Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. _Damalis caama_, =Ham. Sm.= Griff. Cuv. An. K. iv. p. 348; =id.= v. p. 362 (1827); =Smuts=, En. Mamm. Cap. p. 88 (1832).