114 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
STEINBUCK (Raphicerus campestris). 
The Steinbuck, notwithstanding the extermination of other South 
African game, manages to hold its own with a pertinacity that is really 
astonishing. Wherever you go in the veldt, you may be almost certain 
to encounter this handsome little antelope. With the inevitable duiker 
it may be classed as the most familiar game animal of the wilderness. 
Many and many a time have the hunter and traveller owed their supper 
to the presence of this welcome little antelope—pretty certain to be 
encountered somewhere on the line of march. Like the duiker and 
some of the large antelopes, the Steinbuck has the faculty of being able 
to exist for long periods without water. In the very heart of the most 
waterless recesses of the Kalahari both this animal and the duiker are 
extremely numerous. The presence of a Steinbuck is assuredly no 
cuarantee that water exists within fifty miles. This antelope, in addition 
to affording sport with the shot-gun—and occasionally the rifle—is 
hunted with foxhounds, and coursed with greyhounds. 
HEIGHT at shoulder, 19 to 23 inches. 
Distribution—Common on the open flats and grassy slopes of South 
Africa, from Cape Town to the Zambesi; also on the Cunene 
River District, West Africa, as well as some parts of East Africa, 
