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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 havea 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 sucha 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 
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