38 THE SPORTSMAN IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



underwood. In the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth the antelope 

 is very strictly preserved, as it is in most other places in the Colony 

 in which it resorts. About Easter time every year battues are 

 inaugurated, when large drives of Bushbuck take place. On these 

 occasions numbers of natives, with the assistance of dogs, are em- 

 ployed to beat the wooded kloofs, driving the game towards the 

 guns, which are generally placed in some narrow neck or outlet from 

 the valleys. Although a small antelope, it is nevertheless a dan- 

 gerous one to tackle when wounded or driven to bay, as it will 

 frequently, charge with great determination, and with its sharp horns 

 plays havoc among such of the dogs as have the rashness to approach 

 too near. The species found on the Crocodile River, and alluded to 

 by Gordon Cumming as the Antelopus roualeynei, is smaller in size 

 and more reddish in colour, the fur being also longer than that of 

 the Colonial variety. Some few years ago they were very common 

 along the thick bush-covered banks of that river, particularly near 

 its junction with the Notwani. They are now very scarce there, 

 being continually disturbed by the numerous travellers on their 

 way to the recently opened-up country of Mashonaland. The flesh 

 is considered excellent. 



The Harnessed or Spotted Bushbuck {Tragelaphus scriptus). 

 —{Serulebutluku or Seropesabotluku of the Bechuanas; Imba- 

 bala of the Matabele; Unkurungu of the Makobas and 

 Masieuvias.) 



\_Height of adult male about 31 inches. In appearance this 

 variety is perhaps the most beautifully marked of any antelope in 

 the world, the full-grown males being a rich deep red, profusely 

 marked with large round white spots, eight well-defined stripes 

 generally running evenly across the .back, meeting on a white 

 streak on each side, an erectaUe mane extending the whole length 

 of spine. Females approach a yellowish red, well spotted, stripes 

 not being so well-defined as in males. Horns average about 10 

 inches. Females hornless. Spoor same as T. sylvaticus, but 

 smaller.} 



Individually or in pairs this antelope frequents the dense bushy 

 banks of some of the tributaries of the Zambesi in the neighbourhood 

 of the Victoria Falls, while along the Chobe, Botletle, and Oka- 



