AET. 17 EAST AFRICAN VERTEBRATES LOVERIDGE 25 



• RAPHICEROS CAMPESTRIS STIGMATICU9 (Lonnberg) 



STEINBUCK 



Native names. — Not known (Chigogo); Dondoro (Kiswahili). 



I could never get the correct Chigogo name for this species, always 

 being given that of the duiker or oribi instead. Two young ones 

 were brought into Dodoma in June and a third from Mbulu in May. 

 The latter died from pleurisy, the former from undiagnosed causes, 

 but all had numberless fleas upon them, though they lived in an open 

 paddock. 



Fleas (Cfenocephalus felis) were collected on one of these bucks at 

 Dodoma on June 27, 1926. 



REDUNCA REDUNCA TOHI Heller 



REEDBUCK 



Native names. — Mpunzu (Chigogo) ; Tohi (Kiswahili) . 



Reedbuck were also kept with some degree of success. On May 

 20 I saw a pair owned by the station master at Bahi. The brown 

 male was very young and he had only had it for about a week. The 

 reddish female was nearly twice its size and was grazing at large, 

 though still being given nine medicine bottles of milk daily; these it 

 sucked through a piece of football rubber wound around the neck of 

 the bottle. So eager was it for its milk that the sight of the bottle 

 at feeding time would send it racing to its owner and vigorously 

 attacking the back of his knees. 



At Bahi I bought two young males, but both had diarrhea and one 

 died the same night. The other was fed on water and milk for one 

 day, then given bismuth with milk on the second; this resulted in a 

 complete recovery. A fortnight later I again left Dodoma for 10 

 days and on my return found the animal looking miserable with a 

 second attack of diarrhea. Once more it reacted to the bismuth 

 treatment and became a great pet. In the middle of August it 

 was in high spirits, racing and jumping around its inclosure and 

 chasing the crowned cranes for sheer mischief. I removed it to the 

 antelope paddock, where, about the 25th of the month, it very 

 suddenly sickened, with a heavy discharge of mucus running from 

 its nostrils. It stood up continually, as if it found some relief in this 

 position. There was no apparent temperature or other sign of a cold, 

 and though everything possible was done for it, it succumbed on the 

 third night after being taken ill. 



In half an hour spent in the Bahi swamp I saw or heard nearly 

 a dozen reedbuck, sometimes singly, sometimes in pairs. I walked 

 to within 30 feet of one doe, which was either busy feeding or pur- 

 posely kept her head down, though I could see her back from afar. 

 When approached she plunged away for 50 yards through the knee- 

 deep water, then stood calmly regarding us. 

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