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we never saw bushbuck in such country or in the neigh- 

 borhood of such companions. In Uganda the bushbuck — 

 another form of harnessed bushbuck — hved in wet, marshy 

 ground, often where the water stood some inches deep 

 among the tall grass and bushes. In much of East Africa 

 we found the bushbuck — much less striped and spotted, 

 and some of the males very dark-colored — living in thick 

 forest, in the hills and broken country, where there were 

 streams in the gullies and valleys, but where the forests 

 themselves were dry; and there bushbuck were never seen 

 in the open or on the feeding-grounds of the hartebeests 

 or kob. In the Uasin Gishu the bushbuck were found in 

 the belt of heavy timber along the river, and also in big 

 reed beds, in places where reedbuck were also found; else- 

 where we found them in the haunts of the duiker and im- 

 palla. 



Bushbuck are solitary creatures. A buck and doe, or a 

 doe and fawn, may be together, but generally we found them 

 singly. As with other antelopes their times for feeding and 

 drinking vary; in the Lado we came on them feeding in the 

 bright daylight. But in East Africa they usually laid up 

 during the day, and began to move about toward dusk. 

 They trust for safety to skulking and hiding in the thick 

 cover, and it is not easy to shoot them. They are rather 

 noisy, and utter a deep bark when alarmed or disturbed; 

 they sometimes utter this bark when they hear or smell a 

 man or leopard. The leopard is their chief foe, as it lives in 

 the same localities. Doubtless the lion kills them if it hap- 

 pens to get a chance, but it is not sufficiently adroit to take 

 them while in cover. The bushbuck evidently know this, 

 and have no fear whatever of the lions in the thick brush and 



