- Printed source
- John Barrow, An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, vol. II (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), p. 47.
Bluebuck / Primary source
John Barrow
An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa
John BarrowImage & authority record ↗
01 / Publication1804Volume II, p. 47
02 / Reported eventc. 1802–1803Inferred date · report received by Barrow
Original text
II, p. 47 · extractI observed, in the former volume, that in the neighbourhood of this river was once to be found the Leucophæa or blue antelope, but that, for many years past, it had been lost to the colony. I understood, however1, that, a few months before we evacuated the Cape, a small herd of this beautiful animal had again made its appearance among the wooded hills behind Sweet Milk Valley, where, instead of suffering them to remain unmolested, at least for some time, the farmers were lying in wait for their destruction.
Edition
Further reading
- 01L. C. Rookmaaker, The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa 1650–1790 (1989), species account 49, pp. 300–301. ↗
Rotterdam and Brookfield: A. A. Balkema. Historical records of the bluebuck. - 02Elisabeth Hempel et al., “Identifying the true number of specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus)” (2021), Scientific Reports 11: 2100. ↗
Historical distribution, extinction, and identification of museum specimens. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80142-2.
Reference
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John Barrow, An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, vol. II (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), p. 47.