THE BUSHBUCK 



dark brown with a few white spots on the haunches 

 and no transverse stripes, except perhaps from two 

 to four very faint ones on the back or rump. The 

 female and young are similar in their markings, 

 but the general colour is rufous-brown, and not 

 blackish as in the adult ram. Occasionally traces 

 of transverse white stripes on the haunches are 

 present in very young fawns, at least in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Port Elizabeth. 



(3) Gordon Cumming's Bushbuck (Tragelaphus 

 scriptus roualeyni) is the local race which prevails 

 from the Limpopo valley through Eastern Rhodesia, 

 Nyassaland and East Africa to Mombasa. It is 

 dark brown in the male with two or three faint 

 indications of white transverse stripes on the rump. 

 The haunches are spotted with white, and are 

 slightly more abundant than in the Colony Bush- 

 buck. The female is lighter in colour. 



The colour and markings of the Bushbucks merge 

 so gradually into one another that it is a most 

 difficult matter to define the range of each, especi- 

 ally so owing to the prevalence of so many inter- 

 mediate forms. 



The female Bushbuck is smaller than the male, 

 is less robust in appearance, and does not possess 

 horns except rarely as abnormalities. 



The flesh of the females and immature males is 

 fairly good, but that of adult rams is rather dry 

 and tough. 



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