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from the Stuttgart Museum. There are also skins of adults of both sexes 
and accompanying skulls in the same collection from the Transvaal, obtained 
by Dr. Percy Rendall, C.M.Z.S., in 1893 and 1894. Dr. Rendall has 
kindly favoured us with the following notes upon the present species 
of Duiker :— 
‘The local Colonial name for this Antelope is the ‘Lesser Red-buck.’ 
To the Swazis it is the ‘Incumbi,’ and to the Shangaans the ‘ Mangule.’ 
“Its occurrence I found confined to a very limited area, 7.é. the slopes 
of the Makongwa Mountains, which are locally termed ‘ Moodie’s Conces- 
sion, in the Barberton portion of the Transvaal, adjoining Swaziland. Here 
it was not uncommon in places; its resorts being always the wooded creeks 
or ‘dongas,’ where there is dense cover. 
“Its habits are so skulking that it is extremely hard to procure specimens, 
even when the hunter is aware of its existence in a particular locality. 
Nothing but a well organized beat with natives and dogs will make these 
animals break cover from the bush and long grass they frequent. 
‘“‘T never heard of one being seen or shot in the open, and their spoor and 
droppings are only seen just on the outskirts of the cover, where they feed 
at night. 
“The way in which they double and dodge the dogs and beaters in full 
cry is inimitable, and to an onlooker is most entertaining. ‘Their vitality is 
wonderful, and their power of endurance before dogs considerable, especially 
considering their comparatively small size. There is little difference between 
the respective weights of the sexes when adult, as I was surprised to find 
when I put them into the scale. 
* The female is always horned, and in two specimens that I dissected each 
was found to be carrying a quarter-grown (hairless) foetus, in the month 
of April. A wounded animal that I saw pulled down by a dog gave 
vent to a prolonged squeal, not unlike a rabbit or hare does under similar 
circumstances, though fainter in volume. 
“The long tuft of hair around and between the horns is always more marked 
in the male, and practically masks the horns. The flesh is not appreciated 
by a European palate, though the reverse is the case with the Swazis, as 
I have noticed. 
