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it for weeks together. The sportsman, if encamped near a 

 place where he has seen one of them in the morning, but has 

 been unable to get a shot at it, may have a very fair chance 

 of finding it feeding about the same place if he goes out again 

 in the evening between five o'clock and sundown, keeping 

 close to the edge of thick bush. These bucks are very shy, 

 and by no means easy to stalk ; and as they have a happy 

 knack of hiding behind bushes in the most effective manner, 

 they are very difficult to see. 



THE DUYKER 



The Duyker (Swahili name, ' Ngruvu ') is found throughout 

 British East Africa, and I have shot it as far west as Tunga's 

 in Upper Kavirondo. At Taveta it frequents the low stony 

 hills covered with long grass and short scrub. On the coast 

 it is found in open bush country, and also in low scrub and 

 grass some eighteen inches high. Unless this covert has been 

 lately burnt, the duyker rarely gives the sportsman the chance 

 of stalking it. All the duyker I have myself got have been 

 killed with a shot-gun and B.B. shot ; but as a duyker is very 

 tough I should recommend sportsmen to use S.S.G., which 

 would lessen the chance of their getting away wounded. A 

 duyker when in covert lies very close, and will almost allow 

 itself to be trodden on, when it will go off with such a rush and 

 noise through the long grass that the sportsman might be led 

 to believe that it was a bush-pig or something equally large 

 until he caught a glimpse of it thirty to forty yards off. This 

 glimpse will probably be his only chance of a shot at it. 



The Red Duyker, or ' bush-buck,' as it is more commonly 

 called by the few sportsmen who have shot it, was first 

 obtained by Sir Robert Harvey in 1887 on the forest-clad 

 banks of the river Lumi. He unfortunately blew its head off 

 with the '577 Express bullet and did not keep the skin. Later 

 on I devoted ten days exclusively to hunting this rare and very 

 local little beast in Kahe forest west of Taveta, and had the 



