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notable addition to the hunter's bag. The short, 

 sharp horns stand straight up from the skull, and 

 measure in good specimens about from 3 to 4 inches. 

 The grysbok stands about 22 inches at the shoulder, 

 and is a trifle stouter in shape than its elegant little 

 cousin the steenbok. It loves fairly open country, 

 usually in the neighbourhood of hills and mountains, 

 where covert is close at hand. These little buck 

 lie up a great deal during the day from 9 to 4 

 o'clock and are then difficult to move, unless one 

 approaches within 30 yards or so. Like the steen- 

 bok, they are often secured with the shot-gun, or 

 they may be stalked with a small-bore rifle towards 

 sunset or early morning, if their haunts are familiar. 

 Cape sportsmen pursue them with greyhounds, and 

 often have first-rate sport with them. Even at the 

 present day grysbok are quite common in the 

 neighbourhood of Cape Town, so much so that the 

 wine-growers of Wynberg and elsewhere are obliged 

 to thin them down from time to time, in consequence 

 of the damage done by these antelopes in their vine- 

 yards and fruit orchards. Most abundant- on the 

 littoral of Western Cape Colony, grysbok are found 

 also in Natal, the Orange River Colony, the Eastern 

 Transvaal, Gazaland, North Mashonaland, and the 

 Zambesi Valley. I never met with them farther west 

 than near Mesa, in Khama's country, on the verge of 

 the Kalahari. 



The Steenbok (Rhaphiceros campestris} is, with the 

 duyker, the commonest and most familiar of all 

 the smaller antelopes to be found in South Africa. 



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