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duiker, the black-rumped duiker, the Uganda 

 duiker, the blue duiker, the Nyasa duiker, Heck's 

 duiker, the Urori duiker, Erwin's duiker, and I 

 suppose a lot more that the naturalists have not had 

 time to catalogue. 



One would assume that with all these duikers 

 there would hardly be room left in Africa for any 

 other animals. But there is. For instance, there's 

 the oribi and the dik-dik, to say nothing of the 



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steinbuck and the klipspringer. The last named is 

 a rock -jumping antelope, the others little grass 

 antelopes, and all of them are as pretty and cute as 

 animals can be. They are all small, the dik-dik 

 being scarcely larger than a rabbit, and they are 

 divided into as many subspecies as the duiker. A 

 list of the different kinds of oribi would take up 

 several lines of valuable space without conveying 

 any illuminating intelligence to the lay mind. 

 We found thousands of oribi on the Guas Ngishu 



