_Damalis lunata_, =Ham. Sm.= Griff. Cuv. An. K. iv. p. 352, plate (copied from Daniell), v. p. 364 (1827); =Smuts=, Enum. Mamm. Cap. p. 89 (1832); =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846); =id.= List Ost. B. M. p. 59 (1847); =id.= P. Z. S. 1850, p. 140; =id.= Knowsl. Men. p. 21 (1850); =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 125 (1852); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 244 (1862); =Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 180 (1869); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 45 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 115 (1873); =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 139 (1887); =id.= Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 171 (1892); =Nicolls & Egl.= Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 33, pl. vi. fig. 19 (head) (1892). _Acronotus lunatus_, =A. Sm.= S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii. p. 222 (1834); =Harr.= Wild An. S. Afr. pl. viii. (1840); =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 157 (1843); =id.= List Ost. B. M. p. 59 (1847). _Bubalus lunatus_, =A. Sm.= Ill. Zool. S. Afr. pl. xxxi. (animal) (1841). _Bubalis lunata_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1844, p. 209 (1846); =id.= ibid. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 159; Reprint, p. 83 (1848); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1853); =Drummond=, Large Game S. Afr. p. 426 (1875); =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 66 (1892); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 202 (1893); =Selous=, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 1 (hybrid with _B. caama_). _Alcelaphus lunatus_, =Buckley=, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 285 (distribution); =Selous=, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 764; =id.= Hunter’s Wanderings S. Afr. p. 225 (1881); =Flow. & Gars.= Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. p. 273 (1884). VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Bastard Hartebeest_ of Cape colonists; _Sassaybe_ (_Tsess[=e]be_) of Bechuanas, now Anglicized into _Sassăby_ by sportsmen generally; _Incolomo_ and _Incomazan_ of Matabili; _Inkweko_ of Masubias; _Unchuru_ of Makubas; _Inyundo_ of Makalakas; _Luchu_ or _Lechu_ of Masaras (_Selous_); _Myunzi_ of Zulus (_Rendall_). Size large; height at withers nearly 4 feet. General colour dark chestnut-rufous; front of face, outer sides of shoulders, and hips black. Chin and end of muzzle paler than cheeks. Belly purplish rufous, the groins and back of horns only white. Limbs with the dark colour of shoulders and hips passing round them just above knees and hocks; below these the legs are all reddish brown. Tail with its tuft reaching to the hock, its base like the back, its crested terminal half black. Face-hairs reversed up to horns. No glandular suborbital brushes. Skull-measurements of an adult male:--basal length 14·9 inches, greatest breadth 6·2, muzzle to orbit 10·8.