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Size comparatively large; height at withers about 36 inches. General 
colour greyish fawn, very finely grizzled with brown. Head and neck clearer 
fawn. Face-markings generally absent, but a brown patch on the muzzle 
in some specimens, and on the crown between the ears in others; chin 
white. Backs of ears pale fawn, not black-tipped; a whitish patch at 
the base of the ears surrounding the auricular gland, which in young 
specimens is covered with short velvety-white hairs, and in old animals is 
entirely naked. Belly white. Fore legs generally black in front, from the 
knee downwards, fawn externally and white internally; hind legs also 
commonly marked with black on the lower part of the cannon-bone, 
otherwise fawn, but on both fore and hind limbs the dark markings are 
sometimes absent. ‘Tail thick, bushy, reaching halfway to the hocks; fawn 
above and all round the base, white below and at the tip. 
Horns evenly divergent, curved backwards and upwards; never strongly 
hooked at their tips. At their bases the growing pad, which in other 
species is absorbed at maturity, remains persistent throughout life as a soft 
rounded swelling. In length the horns of the adults attain from 14 to 
16 inches. 
Skull-measurements of an adult male :—basal length 10-3 inches, greatest 
breadth 4:7, muzzle to orbit 6:3. 
Female like the male, but without horns. 
Hab. South Africa, as far north as Angola on the west, and Mozambique 
on the east. (Whether C. bohor is only a smaller northern form of 
C. arundinum is as yet uncertain.) . 
The Reedbucks, although closely allied to the Waterbucks and hardly to 
be distinguished from them in osteological characters, as has been shown by 
Turner *, are easily recognized externally by the forward turn of their horns 
and by the naked glandular spot which is always present to a greater or less 
extent on the sides of the head beneath the ears. Of the five species of 
Reedbuck which we treat of in the present work, three were known to the 
writers of the last century; but they have been much confused together, 
even by some of the more recent authorities, and it is a difficult task to 
unravel their complicated synonymy. 
* In his paper on the generic subdivision of the Bovide, P. Z. 8. 1851, p. 170. 
