BUSH-BUCK 



TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS 



Swahili : Imbawara 



I HAVE never shot a bush-buck, and it has 

 been my ill-luck to have met them on very 

 few occasions. 



They are bright foxy-red in colour with 

 numerous white spots and stripes on their body, 

 and are easily recognizable by their shortish 

 straight horns, which have a twist on them rather 

 like that of an eland's horns. Females carry no 

 horns. These animals are, no doubt, closely 

 allied to the harnessed antelopes. 



They are very wary and secretive animals, 

 being only met with in thick bush, on hill-sides 

 for choice, and they are hardly ever seen, as they 

 keep themselves to themselves. 



The only way to get a shot at one is to make 

 a business of it, and go out along a native path to 

 some small clearing in the forest, arriving there 

 about 4.30 p.m., and sit down quietly by oneself 

 and wait motionless. If the locality is in any 

 way frequented by bush-buck, in half an hour or 

 so a shrill whistle will be heard. That is the 



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