132 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
THE LESSER REEDBUCK or ROOI RHEBOK (Cervicapra lalandi). 
HEIGHT at shoulder about 28 inches. 
The average South African hunter and traveller knows very little 
of this antelope, and although it is not by any means uncommon to 
this day in the mountainous parts of Cape Colony, as well as in the 
Bechuanaland Protectorate, the Transvaal, and elsewhere, very few 
heads seem to have been brought to this country. The Rooi (red) 
Rhebok is usually found in much the same kind of rough hilly country 
as the Vaal Rhebok, but prefers, as a rule, the lower slopes to the 
highest parts of the mountain. The adult male stands about 2 feet 
6 inches at the withers, and bears horns not altogether dissimilar to 
those of the reedbuck ram. The coat is longish, loose, and of a 
reddish-brown colour. These animals run in small troops, seldom 
exceeding a dozen in number, and from their active habits and the 
difficult hill country they inhabit afford excellent stalking. In the 
hilly parts of the Marico District, West Transvaal, some good bags of 
