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Size about that of C. redunca; height at withers 28 inches. General 
colour greyish fawn, brighter, sometimes almost rufous, on the head and 
neck, greyer on the body. Chin, upper part of throat, belly, and inner 
sides of limbs white. Darker leg-markings absent or inconspicuous. Tail 
only reaching about to the level of the groin, very bushy, fawn above, white 
below. 
Horns slender, not exceeding 4 inches in circumference, evenly curved 
upwards and forwards, but showing in a very marked degree the change of 
general form with age already referred to in the other species. 
Skull measurements of an adult male :—Basal length 8°1 inches, greatest 
breadth 4:1, muzzle to orbit 5:1. 
Female similar to the male, but hornless. 
Hab. Eastern portion of South Africa south of the Zambesi, especially 
Natal, Zululand, and Bechuanaland. 
Besides the ordinary Reedbuck of the Cape (which is that called in this 
work Cervicapra arundinum) the Dutch settlers have from an early date 
recognized the existence of a second species of the same group in eastern 
parts of the Colony, which, instead of frequenting banks of rivers, resorts to 
the terraces of the mountains, and is commonly called the “ Roi Rhébok,” or 
“Red Roebuck.” Great confusion has prevailed for many years as to the 
proper scientific name of this species. By Lichtenstein and Sundevall it has 
been called “ eleotraqus,” and by Gray “ reduncus”; but, according to our 
views, both these names are properly applicable to other species. Until 
lately we have used for it the specific term ‘“ dalandii,” it being in all proba- 
bility the “ Antilope lalandia” of Desmoulins, founded by that author in 1822 
upon a specimen of a female Antelope in the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle 
obtained at the Cape by the well-known French collector Delalande. But we 
have lately found another older name for it, which, under the circumstances, 
we think we shall be justified in employing, although we must confess that 
in all these old names there is a considerable element of uncertainty. After 
describing the Reedbuck (C. arundinum) Allamand, in his edition of Buffon 
(as quoted by Afzelius), speaks of another similar animal of a darker colour, 
which is found in the mountains of the Cape Colony. Upon this variety of 
Allamand, Afzelius, in his memoir on Antelopes, published at Upsala in 1815, 
proceeds to establish a species Antilope fulvorufula. Between two uncertain 
