480 Great and Small Game of Africa 



a most beautiful bushbuck with exceptionally fine horns, i6h inches in 

 length. I had it carried back to camp on a camel and carefully photo- 

 graphed, as at the time I did not know that it had already been described, 

 and hoped it might prove a new variety. 



The meat is excellent, and those I shot were quite fat, and with the 

 exception of koodoo, better eating than any other African antelope. The 

 habitat of this bushbuck, as at present known, lies in Somaliland and 

 Abyssinia. A. H. Straker. 



Western Race (Trageltiphus scriptus typhus) 



Mbabala of Barotse, Batonga, and Masubias 



This very handsome member of the bushbuck group is found in West, 

 Central, and South-Central Africa. It varies somewhat in colouring in 

 different localities, but the general type may be said to be bright rufous in 

 character, conspicuously spotted with white on the haunches, shoulders, and 

 sides, and bearing transverse white stripes down the sides. The females, 

 which are hornless, are usually of a more yellowish red, well spotted, but 

 with the stripes less well defined. Found usually near water and in thick 

 covert. Although fonder of the neighbourhood of water than the southern 

 form, this bushbuck is in its habits very similar to the three other races, 

 which are more fully described. A good specimen will stand rather 

 more than 30 inches at the shoulder. The finest horns measure as much as 

 15 or 16 inches over the curve. The rams are among the most beautiful 

 antelopes in Africa. ^ A _ Bryden , 



