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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



rounded swelling on the nose. Ear patch bare. Face 

 glands small. Fore legs with a black stripe down the 

 front and encircling the limb just above the hoof. Tail 

 bushy and white beneath, which shows conspicuously as 

 the tail bobs up and down when the animal is in flight. 

 Horns black, curved backwards and upwards with the 

 tips directed forwards, and ringed for about two-thirds 



FIG. 103. Dead Reedbuck (bottom) and Bushbuck (top). 



of their length ; there is a soft pad at the bases. Length 

 about 12 to 16 inches ; record 18 inches. Weight of 

 rams about 160 to 180 Ib. Height at shoulder 2f to 

 3 feet. Length 4 to 44 feet. 



The Reedbuck ranges from Eastern Cape Colony, where 

 it is now very scarce, through Natal and Zululand to 

 Rhodesia, reappearing on the West Coastjn South- West 

 Africa. It is still fairly common in certain parts of the 

 Northern and Eastern Transvaal, but owing to indis- 



