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length is 3-5- inches) of the bucks, and the general greyish -brown 

 colour of the upper-parts, inclusive of the tail -tip. As in all the 

 members of the group, the under-parts are white. 



This species is a native of two small islands near Zanzibar and the 

 adjacent mainland from Kilimanjaro to Mozambique. Its specific 

 name refers to the strong odour of musk exhaled by the face-glands, 

 which gives an unpleasant taste to the flesh of the bucks. These 

 antelopes appear to be independent of water, and dwell in low bushes, 

 upon the leaves of which they feed. They are best killed with shot, 

 like rabbits, as they bolt from covert. 



LIVINGSTONE'S SUNI 



(Neotragus livings tonianus} 

 Lumswi y SHUPANGA ; Inhlengana, AMATONGA 



From Mozambique southwards to Zululand the place of the true 

 suni is taken by a slightly larger species, characterised by the thicker 

 and longer horns of the bucks (maximum length 5 inches), the more 

 rufous colour of the upper-parts, and the blackish upper surface of the 

 tail. The general colour above is light rufous fawn, darker than 

 elsewhere on the crown of the head, nape, and back, and gradually 

 paling towards the white of the chin, throat, chest, under-parts, and 

 inner surfaces of the limbs. The shoulder-height varies from about 

 1 4 to 15 inches. The delicately formed ears are large ; and the hair 

 on the crown of the head is lengthened, although not forming an actual 

 crest as in the duikers. 



In Zululand the species is represented by a distinct race (Neotragus 

 livingstonianus zuluensis\ named by Mr. O. Thomas in the Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History for October 1898. The general 

 colour of the upper-parts in this race is grizzled fawn instead of deep 

 rufous or bay ; while the fetlocks are only indistinctly blackish in place 

 of wholly black all round. Possibly the horns of the bucks run rather 

 larger than in the typical Zambesi race. 



These sunis, according to Mr. Vaughan Kirby, are essentially 

 forest-antelopes, which never leave the thick covert except to feed in 

 the open glades at early morning and again in the evening, and are 

 independent of water. Although as many as a dozen may sometimes 

 be seen feeding in company, they go about in pairs or are solitary. 



" These antelopes," continues the same observer, " are equally bush 



