RED RHEBUCK 191 



criminate shooting is becoming scarcer, and will have 

 to be wholly protected for a few years. It lives in 

 valleys in the neighbourhood of water courses and vleis 

 or on bushy ridges, consorting in pairs, or family parties 

 of three to seven individuals. It feeds at early morning 

 and evening or during the night, lying up in some 

 thicket or patch of scrub during the heat of the day. 

 It is a grass feeder and its flesh is of high quality. It 

 emits a shrill whistle when alarmed or excited. 



Redunca fulvorufula. Bed Ehehuck. Booi BJiebok. 

 N'gia (Swazi) ; Infele (Bechuana). 



Smaller than the Reedbuck, and of a greyish to 

 brownish tint ; below and insides of the limbs pure 

 white. Head and upper neck pale reddish -brown or 

 fulvous. Limbs generally darker than the body. Tail 

 tufted and white beneath, which is conspicuous as the 

 animal bounds upwards in its rocky home. Horns short, 

 ringed for the lower half, with the terminal half curved 

 forward ; length on the curve, 5 to 7 inches ; record, 

 9j\; inches. Height at shoulder, 27 to 30 inches. 

 Length, 4 feet. 



The Red Rhebuck is found from the Central Cape 

 Colon}^ through the Eastern Province, Natal, Orange 

 Free State, Transvaal, Bechuanaland, and as far as the 

 Zambesi River in Rhodesia. We found it quite common 

 in parts of the Orange Free State, where it inhabits the 

 slopes and kloofs of rocky kopjes clothed with scattered 

 scrub, in small parties of from two to six individuals. The 

 male has a peculiar sharp, snorting whistle. On the Rhe- 

 boksberg, near Marquard, Orange Free State, where they 

 are preserved by the farmers, I had the pleasure of counting 

 over twenty on one day during May, 1918, one small herd 

 of three and a fine solitary ram jumping out quite close 



