176 SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



" diving" into cover, hence its Dutch vernacular name. 

 One, sometimes two, kids are born in the spring. It 

 feeds in the early mornings and evenings, lying asleep in 

 the middle of the day. It is fond of tender shoots of 

 shrubs, fruit, and the young grass on the " burns." 

 Although independent of water, the Duiker will drink 

 when water is procurable. It is usually found singly or 

 in pairs and takes some straight shooting to bag with a 

 shot-gun, and the proportion of unrecovered wounded 

 animals is somewhat heavy. A fine example wounded 

 by the author was tracked by him and a friend for- over 

 two hours, and had finally to be abandoned owing to the 

 absence of a well-trained dog. The Boer farmers shoot 

 this animal with the rifle, stalking it in the early morning, 

 when the animal is feeding. 



The rams are sometimes pugnacious in captivity ; one 

 particular individual in the Zoo gored a native in the leg 

 and injured him seriously. The Duiker breeds fairly well 

 in captivity. 



Genus OREOTRAGUS. 



Hair of a thick bristly nature, quite unlike that of any 

 other South African Antelope. Hoofs perpendicular, 

 blunt and cylindrical, long and well adapted for resting 

 on precarious positions on the cliffs. Horns only present 

 in the male. Antorbital glands large and situated in 

 front of the eye. Ehinarium large. 



Oreotragus oreotragus. KUpsprlnger. Klipbok. 



Ikumi (Basuto) ; Ligoka (Zulu and Swazi) ; Ingululu 



(Makalaka). 



Colour brown, thickly speckled with yellow, the thick 

 and coarse hair being whitish at the base, brown in the 

 middle and yellow at the tip, the general effect being 



