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sloping trees, so as to reach what they cannot attain while they are on the 
ground.” 
Beyond a reference to its name in various lists and catalogues, we find 
little more recorded concerning this Antelope until modern days, when several 
experienced observers have mentioned it. In his ‘Rough Notes on the 
Game and Natural History of South and South-east Africa,’ published in 
1875, the Hon. W. H. Drummond mentions the “ Red-buck,” as he calls it, 
as one of the two species of Cephalophus that inhabit the jungles of Natal, 
the other being “the Blue-buck” (Cephalophus monticola). Of these, 
Mr. Drummond says the Red-buck “is the larger and also the least com- 
mon. It is, as its name denotes, of a light yellowish-red colour, mingled 
with grey on the lower parts, and its chief peculiarity is a tuft of hair 
growing out of the forehead, which gives a curious appearance to the 
hornless does, while it partially conceals the small horns of the bucks. 
Its flesh is anything but good, and it is difficult to shoot, from the 
tremendous rushes it makes when disturbed. So fast and heedlessly does 
it run, that I once saw a buck, that had passed me while I was loading, 
entangle itself in a mass of creepers, from which, despite its struggles, 
it was unable to escape until I released it with the help of my knife. It 
was quite uninjured, and I kept it in confinement for some weeks, but, 
like most Antelopes when caught full-grown, it ultimately pined away 
and died.” 
Messrs. Nicolls and Eglington, in their ‘ Sportsman in South Africa’ (1892), 
tell us that this Antelope is found only in Zululand, Natal, and the southern 
portions of Swaziland, but is everywhere very scarce. It is, however, stated 
on good authority to have been found recently in South-eastern Mashona- 
land. In habits, these authors say, it resembles the Common Duiker, except 
that it chooses dense forest as a residence. 
So far as we know, but one specimen of the Natal Duiker has ever been 
brought to Europe alive. This was a male which was purchased in 1880 
(March 14th), by the Zoological Society of London, of Mr. Charles Jamrach, 
for the sum of £6 10s., and lived some months in the Menagerie. 
Besides the skin of an adult female of this species, received from Sir 
Andrew Smith as the type of C. natalensis, there is a mounted pair in the 
National Museum, collected by Dr. A. Krauss, and received in exchange 
