In the National Collection, we regret to say, the Bontebok is only represented by a single stuffed specimen--a male, received in 1839 from Dr. Smuts. There are also several skulls and horns of this Antelope, but none of them are of recent date. We fear it will now be a matter of some difficulty to obtain fresh specimens of this once so abundant Antelope. The coloured illustration of the Bontebok (Plate VIII.) and the woodcut (fig. 10) were both prepared under Sir Victor Brooke’s directions. The plate was lithographed by Smit from one of Mr. Wolf’s sketches. _January, 1895._ [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES. PL. IX. _Wolf del Smit lith_ _Hanhart imp._ The Blessbok DAMALISCUS ALBIFRONS _Published by R. H. Porter._] 14. THE BLESSBOK. DAMALISCUS ALBIFRONS (BURCH.). [PLATE IX.] _Antilope albifrons_, =Burch.= Travels, ii. p. 335 (1824); =Wagn.= Schr. Säug. Supp. iv. p. 413 (1844), v. p. 448 (1855). _Gazella albifrons_, =Harris=, Wild Anim. S. Afr. (fol.) pl. xxi. (animal) (1840). _Damalis albifrons_, =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846); =id.= P.Z. S. 1850, p. 141; =id.= Knowsl. Men. p. 22, pl. xxii. fig. 1 (animal) (1850); =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 129 (1852); =id.= Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 45 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 116 (1873); =Layard=, Cat. S. Afr. Mus. p. 77 (1861); =Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 181 (1869); =Drummond=, Large Game S. Afr. p. 425 (1875); =Nicolls & Egl.= Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 31, pl. iii. fig. 9 (head) (1892); =Jent.= Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 171 (1892). _Bubalis albifrons_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1844, p. 210 (1846); =id.= ibid. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 159; Reprint, p. 84 (1848); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1853); =Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 217 (1880); =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 68 (1892); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 202 (1893). _Alcelaphus albifrons_, =Buckley=, P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 286, 292 (distribution); =Scl.= List Anim. Z. S. (8) p. 149 (1883); =Bryden=, Kloof and Karroo, p. 295 (1889); =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 335 (1891). VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Blessbok_ of Dutch and English colonists; _Nunni_ of Bechuana natives (_Harris_); _Inoni_ of Kaffirs (_Drummond_); _Inoni_ or _Inpemfu_ of Zulus (_Rendall_). Similar to _D. pygargus_ in nearly every respect; but the rufous ground-colour is much more widely extended, owing to the parts which are black in that animal being here scarcely darker than the rest. White blaze on face divided into two parts by a narrow line between the eyes. Posterior half of rump not prominently white, a small area only round the base of the tail slightly paler than the rest. Skull and horns as in _D. pygargus_, except that the latter are of a more or less whitish colour.