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areas, and their spoor seems to indicate that even at night they only feed 

 on the outskirts of this cover. 



Very good sport used to be obtained with a pack of beagles near 

 Barberton, and I have known as many as three killed by the dogs in one 

 afternoon. Without such aids these little animals may be sought by the 

 sportsman in vain. The locality where I met with this species was the 

 slopes of the Makougwa Mountains in the De Kaap or Barberton district 

 of the Transvaal, on the borders of Swaziland, and one memorable bush- 

 hunt we organised I shall never forget. From thirty to forty Swazis were 

 got together from neighbouring kraals, and in their train about half as 

 many Kaffir curs were mustered. Eight or nine Englishmen of the roving 

 sort, armed with every variety of weapon, we stationed ourselves on each 

 side of the kloofs, beginning as far up as the high wood allowed, and then 

 put the natives into the dense cover and waited to see the results, moving 

 down a trirle in advance of them as they waved their assegais in the air, 

 shouting and yelling, meat-hungry, or beating their cowhide shields with 

 their knobkerries as they cheered on their dogs, forcing their way through 

 the thick scrub. One bush-pig, three red duikers, and several rock-rabbits 

 was the sum total of our bag that day. Shot guns loaded with loopers are 

 the proper weapons for this sort of work, and if not hit far enough forward 

 the buck were quickly overhauled by the dogs. One animal squealed like 

 a rabbit when the dog caught it. Percy Rendall. 



Harvey's Duiker (Cephalophus harveyi) 



Very little is as yet known of this antelope. I have only seen two 

 specimens, one shot by Sir Robert Harvey in the forest of Taveta, after 

 whom the species was named. The head of this one was unfortunately 

 completely smashed by an express bullet. The other was killed by Dr. 

 Abbott in the dense forest on Kilimanjaro, at about 7000 feet elevation. 



