214 GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES 



body is square and robust, with a short broad head and small pointed 

 muzzle. The horns are about four inches long, round, distant, vertical 

 but slightly inclined forwards. The fur is ashy colored at the base, 

 brown in the middle and yellow at the tips, giving an agreeable olive 

 appearance. The legs are robust for climbing and the hoofs sub- 

 divided into two segments and jagged at the edges so as to give it the 

 power of holding on to the steep sides of smooth rock. The doe, as 

 usual, is hornless, and they are usually found in pairs, inhal)iting the 

 rocks and precipices. 



The Steenbok, — A species found chiefly among the bushes on 

 high ground is the steenbuck or steenbok, as it is commonly known. 

 Standing about twenty inches high at the shoulder, it is about thirty- 

 live inches long. The head is short and oval, with a jiointed snout and 

 carrying horns vertical, parallel and nearly straiglit, four inches in 

 length, slender, round and pointed. The ears are large, round and 

 open, and the tail is Init an inch long, having the appearance of a 

 stump, beyond which the hair does not protrude. The general color 

 of the steenbok is yellowish-red with occasionally a cast of brown or 

 crimson. The belly is white and the groin naked and black. The buck 

 and doe are usually found together, the doe being similar but hornless. 

 Sometimes solitary. 



The Grysbok. — In size much like the steenbok, the grysbok is 

 darker in color, being a deep chocolate red intermixed with numerous 

 single white hairs. The forehead is marked with a black horseshoe- 

 shaped design. The shape of the head is also somewhat like that of 

 the steenbok, it being very broad and short and carrying an obtusely 

 pointed nose. The horns are about three and a half inches long, 

 smooth, round, slender and vertical or slightly inclined forward. They 

 are found usually among the wooded tracts along the seacoast. 



The Duiker. — A somewhat larger antelope than those imme- 

 diately preceding is the duiker, standing about two feet at the siioulder 

 and having an extreme length of three feet eight inches. Its horns 

 are al)out four inches long-, close together and bending backward and 

 outward, ])ointed tips and wrinkled at the base. The color scheme 

 varies, but is usually a burnt olive above and white beneath. The 

 forehead is covered with a patch of long bright tawny hair, a dark 



