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lower slopes of rugged mountains, whereon, upon the 

 higher portions, ranged the well-known Vaal rhebok. 

 The Boers, finding these two antelopes on the same 

 hills, sometimes, when disturbed by shooting, even 

 running together, at once named the lighter one, the 

 Vaal (grey), rhebok, the darker one the rooi 

 rhebok. And to Boers and colonists, no doubt, 

 both will remain rhebok to the end of the chapter. 

 It is a curious circumstance, noted by Mr. F. V. 

 Kirby, that this animal is known to the Zulus and 

 Swazis as Inhlangomatshe^ or " Reedbuck of the 

 Stones " a very telling description. 



The mountain reedbuck, as I must call it here, 

 though from old association I much prefer the title 

 rooi rhebok, affords excellent stalking, and is to be 

 found in many parts of Central and Eastern Cape 

 Colony, and thence northward through the Transvaal 

 and Orange River Colony, as far as Bechuanaland 

 where I have found it among the hills of the Protec- 

 torate. It is to be met with in Natal, Zululand, and 

 Swaziland, and other parts of South-East Africa. It 

 has been found sparingly in British East Africa. 

 The colour is reddish brown, sometimes grey-brown, 

 the height about 30 inches, and the horns measure 

 from 5 to 8 inches. Although thorough hill-lovers, 

 these antelopes are certainly very closely allied to the 

 other reedbucks, and the shrill whistle and restless 

 tail action remind one strongly of the common 

 reedbuck. Two slightly varying forms, the Lyden- 

 burg and Chanler's mountain reedbucks, have been 

 found in Africa, the first in the Eastern Transvaal, 



