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cases, a more or less decidedly rufous tinge — indeed, Mr. Vaughan Kirby 

 describes it as being usually warm red-brown, passing into bufif on the 

 cheeks and throat, and into white on the under-parts and inner sides 

 of the limbs. As in the typical species, there may be a dark mark 

 on the nose. 



The range of the typical race includes a large portion of eastern 

 Africa to the south of the Zambesi ; Natal, Zululand, and Bechuana- 

 land being some of its strongholds. Certain mountain-reedbuck from 

 near Lydenberg, in the Transvaal, have been described by Mr. 

 Vaughan Kirby on p. 879 of the Zoological Society's Proceedings for 

 1897 as a distinct form — Cervicap7-a fulvorufula suhalpina. It is, 

 however, more probable that they indicate a semi-albinistic " sport." 

 In both sexes, of all ages, the limbs were white from the knees 

 downwards, inclusive of the hoofs ; the tail was also white, both above 

 and below ; and there was a white patch on the forehead, as well as 

 an imperfectly defined white dorsal stripe. 



The Kenia representative of this reedbuck, first described by 

 Mr. Rothschild in Novitates Zoologicce, vol. ii. p. 53, 1895, is 

 generally regarded as a distinct race, C. /. chcmleri. It inhabits the 

 Kenia and Lake Rudolf districts, and is characterised by its grey tone 

 of colour, and the presence of a dark streak down the nose. 



To the reedbuck of this group inhabiting Shoa and Abyssinia Mr. 

 O. Neumann {^Sitzungs-BericJite Ges. Naturfor. Berlin, 1902, p. 99) has 

 given the name C. f. sJwana. It differs from chanleri by the absence 

 of the dark nose-streak, and in certain details of the skull and horns. 



In an account written some years ago Mr. Vaughan Kirby remarks 

 that " these antelope are still fairly numerous in the south-eastern 

 districts of Cape Colony, in parts of Bechuanaland, Swaziland, and the 

 Transvaal. In the latter state, on the Drakensberg, particularly around 

 the Mauchberg, and the Blyde and Oliphants River Poorts, they are 

 very common ; but I have nowhere met with them north of the 

 Limpopo. They are partial to rugged, hilly country, though shunning 

 bleak, barren mountain summits. Their favourite spots are amongst 

 the scattered ' sugar-bushes ' and dry grass on the sunny slopes and in 

 shallow gullies ; and in such places they are far more approachable 

 than the rhebuck on the summits. At one time they were numerous 

 amongst the foot-hills and on the lower terraces ; but such places 

 invariably become inhabited, when the antelope that are not destroyed 

 seek safety at higher elevations ; and years ago I have seen them 

 among the rocky kopjes on the flats between the Sabi and Crocodile 

 rivers. They associate either in pairs or in small herds of five or six 



