THE ZooLocist—Aveust, 1875. 4551 
looking up he saw the enraged brute within a few paces of him, 
but a companion of his opportunely making his appearance the 
buck fled. This antelope when at bay stamps the ground with its 
right fore foot, in the same manner as the goat. 
The blue buck is a graceful little animal, not larger than the 
English hare, and weighing eight or ten pounds. Its colour is 
deep brown above and light gray beneath: the horns, which are 
common to both male and female, are two inches in length. It 
swarms in all the wooded parts of Natal, being nearly as plentiful 
as the rabbit at home, although it only brings forth one at a birth. 
This buck lies still during the heat of the day, but in the early 
morning or evening we can always manage to shoot one by watching 
near any of their runs, which are generally plainly marked. When 
undisturbed the blue buck is a very silent animal, but on being 
startled in the bush utters a short whistling noise, and when 
wounded bleats loudly like a lamb. It is very easily domesticated. 
There is one at the Drift Hotel, on the Umkomanzi river, which 
has been kept for some time and runs loose about the house, 
making no attempt to return to its wild life: it eats bread and 
different kinds of vegetables. We caught a “pete” in a trap our- 
selves, and confined it in one of the divisions of the stable. The 
flesh is rather dry, but with the addition of bacon makes a good 
meal. 
The duiker, a smaller antelope than the bush-buck, is of a light 
gray colour; the horns are straight, and only five or six inches in 
length. It frequents the outskirts of the wood, living under the 
scrub or low bushes, and when hunted will take to the open 
country, where, by a series of bounds, it runs with great swiftness. 
In 1871 we bought a young oue from a Kafir, and tried to rear it 
on cow’s milk, but after a few days it died, owing, we believe, to 
the milk being slightly sour. The duiker and the other bush 
antelopes feed chiefly on a soft broad-leafed grass which grows 
under the trees, and is here called the “ Guinea grass.” 
A Bush Hunt in Natal.—lWarge numbers of bucks and other 
game are annually destroyed by the natives, who during the winter 
months turn out with their dogs to scour the woods for meat. It 
may be worth while here to describe the last bush hunt which took 
place on our land: it occurred in the winter of 1878. Having the 
day previously informed our neighbours that we intended to call a 
hunt, we sent word to the “indunas,” or heads of the principal 
