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Uganda kob, found in East Africa ; Buffon's kob, 

 whose habitat ranges from the Gambia to Nigeria, 

 and the white-eared kob, found about the White Nile 

 and its tributaries. The white-eared kob is met with 

 in the same country as Mrs. Gray's waterbuck, and 

 has occasionally been confused with that antelope. 

 It ranges in large herds, has much the same pied 

 appearance, but is smaller, lighter, and carries con- 

 siderably smaller horns. All these water- loving 

 antelopes, it should be remembered, frequent very 

 fever-haunted country, and should be pursued, as far 

 as possible, only in the driest and healthiest season of 

 African winter. 



THE REEDBUCKS 



The Common Reedbuck (Cervicapra arundinum) is 

 a capital sporting beast, affording excellent shooting, 

 and is found in many parts of Southern Africa, as 

 far as Angola in the western and the Mozambique 

 provinces in the eastern part of the continent Rare 

 nowadays in the eastern part of Cape Colony, it is 

 found in fair plenty in Zululand, Amatongaland, the 

 Transvaal low country, Rhodesia, Khama's country, 

 Ngamiland, Ovampoland, and Nyasaland. My 

 friend Mr. Penrice tells me it is quite plentiful in 

 Portuguese West Africa, while in Mozambique there 

 is no scarcity of this handsome antelope. As a rule, 

 frequenting grassy valleys, near rivers and streams 

 and the vicinity of reed beds, the reedbuck is not so 

 completely water - loving a species as its bigger 



