MOUNTAIN REEDBUCK OR ROOI RHEBOK 



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hood of the tributaries of the Limpopo, on the Mabube, Tamulikan, 

 Machabe, Sunta, and Chobe rivers, as well as the tributaries of the 

 Zambesi east of the Victoria Falls, and throughout Mashonaland 

 and Matabeleland, rooi rhebok are still very abundant. Those 

 reported from the Manica plateau, north of the Zambesi, may be 

 the so-called Chanler's reedbuck. 



LYDENBURGr REEDBUCK (Cervicapra fulvorufula subalpina). 

 The reedbuck discovered by Mr. Vaughan Kirby in the Lydenburg 

 range of the .Transvaal departs from the ordinary type of the mountain 

 reedbuck in exhibiting a tendency to partial albinism. Whether this 

 peculiarity entitles it to be regarded as a distinct race must, for the 

 present, remain a moot point. 



