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When disturbed while lying up for the day, Sharpens Steenbuck 

 usually springs up 30 or 40 yards away, and makes off at once. 

 Occasionally, however, when well concealed, it lies very close, 

 and only gets up when approached within a few yards. In no case 

 that I have observed did it ever pause before going, resembling 

 many other small buck and liares in this resjDect. It always goes- 

 at best pace for a considerable distance, squatting again suddenly 

 when it has found suitable covert. Its gait is a scuttling run, and 

 it never bounds like a Steenbuck or a Duiker. Nevertheless, its 

 speed is considerable, and, in the rough country aftected, it takes 

 a very good dog to run down an adult of either sex. 



It is very solitary in habit, and even when a pair are put out 

 of the same patch of bush, they seem generally to have been lying 

 in different parts of it. Bush and rocks seem to be regarded 

 equally as natural refuges, and in following up individuals I 

 could not discover any preference for one over the other. Even 

 in the heat of the day the shade of a large stone on a hillside^ 

 destitute of a blade of grass or a scrap of bush, is sometimes 

 sufficient for the animal's requirements. 



Most of the females appear to be in lamb (North-eastern Trans- 

 vaal) in October and November, and I imagine the bulk of the 

 young to be born in the early or mid summer months, though I 

 should hesitate to affirm that they do not, like many other small 

 buck, breed more or less all the year i^ound. 



From observation of appearance and habits in the field it would 

 be impossible to recognize its kinship with the true Steenbuck. 

 In habit it approximates much more closely to the Grysbuck, for 

 which it used often to be mistaken by hunters. The native 

 (Thonga) name is tSpiti-jnte or Fitsi-pitsi for Sharpe's Steenbuck,. 

 while they call the Steenbuck Inginana and the Livingstone 

 Antelope Inhlengana. 



Mr. R. T. Coryndon, the Resident Commissioner of Swaziland, 

 confirms these observations of the animal's habits in the North- 

 eastern Transvaal as being applicable to what he has himself 

 observed in Swaziland, and gives the Swazi name for it as 

 Isigidane, for the SteenVjuck Tngcina, and for the Livingstone 

 Antelope Inhlengana. The Zulus call the common Steenbuck 

 Iqina. The natives therefore recognize, judging as they do 

 merely from habits and outward appearance, no affinity between 

 the two species of Steenbuck. 



Sharpe's Steenbuck is generally spoken of by Colonists in South 

 Africa as " Grysbuck" or " Grys Steenbuck," and in this Province 

 it received its proper title for the first time in the Game Laws. 

 of 1912. 



