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ance. The females are lighter in general colour 

 than the male, both in the '' bor'' and in the 

 '' deacla " races, and they carry no horns. 



There is a strange and erroneous idea firmly 

 impressed in the minds of many people in 

 Uganda that there is a certain kind of animal 

 called the "harnessed antelope" which is quite 

 distinct from the "bushbuck." When one of 

 these persons is asked to explain the difference, 

 he replies that the two are very much alike ; 

 and on being further pressed, he admits that he 

 knows of no dissimilarity between them. The 

 truth is that in South Africa, and on the West 

 Coast, where various species of bushbuck also exist 

 in large quantities, the generic name " harnessed 

 antelope " was bestowed upon the lot ; and on 

 the occasion of their original discovery on the 

 East Coast, they were all labelled harnessed 

 antelope by the books bearing on the subject. 

 The Eastern and Western forms are both one 

 and the same animal, Tragelaphus scriptus, which 

 is in English " harnessed antelope," or, as we call 

 it, "bushbuck." They all belong to the same 

 class as the kudus, and all wear string-marks, 

 more or less clearly defined, in this part of the 

 world. In the Uganda region the Nile and 

 Abyssinian races meet one another, hence the 

 differences seen between various individuals 

 within forty miles of one another. I have seen 

 the yellowish kind, and a very much redder one, 



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