ic8 CENTRAL AFRICAN GAME AND ITS SPOOR. 



BUSHBUCK (Tragelaphus scriptus). 



(The lesser or common bushbuck.) 



Native Names. 



Chinyanja Balala. Chitonga Mbawa. 



Chiyao Mbawala. Chisenga Chuwawala. 



Zulu (Ngoni) . . . Mbawala. Chibisa Chikwiwa. 



Chikunda Goho. Chiwemba .... Chisongo. 



Food. 

 Grass. Bwazi. Kanyemba nyemba (or Chitambitengo), wild bean. 



Spoor. 

 Differs from the puku or small waterbuck type much as the kudu does from the 

 common waterbuck. Dung often stuck together as in illustration and at other times 

 separate pellets. 



Habitat. 

 Thick bush and high hills. Often found at considerable altitudes. 



Habits. 



Usually one male with one or more females, three being a common number, as 

 also with kudu and reedbuck. 



Also, as with the former, the females are seen oftener than the male, and appear 

 to scout for him. 



The male is much the darker, and sometimes in the distance appears almost black. 



The younger ones are, as is usually the case with buck, lighter coloured than 

 the older animals. 



The horns have not white tips like the situtunga, which is of the same genus. 



The Tragelaph family, including kudu and eland, and the bovines, as buffalo and 

 gnu, differ from all other antelope, buck, and gazelle in not having clearly defined 

 ridges to their horns. 



Notes. 



