CAPE BUSHBUCK 207 



when unfortunately both parents were carried off by 

 stomach troubles, following bad cysticercus infection. 

 The bull was most pugnacious, refusing to make way for 

 anyone. He had to be caught and thrown periodically, 

 as his hoofs grew extremely long, which had in con- 

 sequence to be regularly cut. The cow was, on the 

 other hand, very docile and tame. All our Gemsbuck 

 came from Bechuanaland, either from Kuruman, Vryburg 

 or Khama's country. 



Genus TRAGELAPHUS. 



Medium sized Antelopes, with fairly short, bushy tails. 

 The males only are horned ; the horns are slightly ridged 

 and spirally twisted upwards and outwards. 



Tragelaphus sylYaticus. Cape Bushbuck. Bosbok. 



Inkonka, male, Imbabala, female (Swazi and Zulu) ; M'babala 



(Barotse) ; Ibawara (Lower Zambesi). 



The male is dark slatey brown, forehead reddish. Lips 

 and chin, a spot below the eye, crossbars on the throat, 

 patches on the insides of the legs and a few scattered 

 spots on the body, chiefly on the flanks, all white. A 

 short upstanding mane runs along the back. Tail white 

 below. The female is of a more reddish colour than the 

 male, and usually striped. I append a photograph of an 

 authentic pair of horns taken from a female Bushbuck. 

 Such cases are rare however. Horns 12 to 16 inches long, 

 straight and black, forming one or one and a quarter 

 spiral curves. The record for the South African variety, 

 so far as I can make out from Rowland Ward's " Records 

 of Great Game," is 18J inches; height, not quite 3 feet ; 

 length, 4 feet 9 inches ; weight, from 100 Ib. to 150 Ib. 

 The Transvaal specimens seem to be paler and redder 



