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names, therefore, in order to avoid the necessity of proposing a new one, we 
will select the oldest and call the Roi Rhébok Cervicapra fulvorufula. 
The earliest good description and figure of this species were published by 
Lichtenstein in the second Heft of his ‘ Darstellung der Saugethiere,’ issued 
at Berlin about the year 1829. Here Antilope eleotragus, as he unfortunately 
calls it, is well distinguished by many characters from the larger Reedbuck 
(which Lichtenstein termed A. tsabellina), and figures are given of it of both 
sexes. 
Harris, during his extensive travels in South Africa in 1836 and 1837, 
curiously enough does not seem to have recognized this Antelope as a 
distinct species, but alludes to it in the letterpress to his ‘ Portraits’ as a 
variety of the Reedbuck, “ usually met with on high rocky mountains along 
the dry channels of upland streams.” Of this supposed variety he had killed 
a single specimen in the Cashan range, but doubted whether it was more 
than a young individual of the well-known Reedbuck. But we have good 
accounts of the habits and distribution of this Antelope from more recent 
authorities, who take a very different view of its position. 
The “ Roi-raebuck,’ Mr. W. H. Drummond tells us, in his volume on the 
‘Large Game of South Africa,’ published in 1875, though inhabiting thorny 
districts, prefers such as are on stony or broken ground. It is a fine large 
Antelope, but a little smaller than the Reedbuck, though its colour, he says, 
as its name implies, is of a reddish tinge. 
Messrs. Nicolls and Eglington, writing in 1892 in their ‘Sportsman in 
South Africa,’ give a small but very recognizable representation of the head of 
the Red Rhébuck (see figure 4 of their first plate), and, after speaking of what 
has been called the “ Lesser Reedbuck” (which is probably nothing more 
than this species under another English name), point out that the Red 
Rhébuck is quite a different animal from the true Reedbuck, and has totally 
different habits. The Red Rhébuck “runs in herds, often exceeding twenty 
in number, and invariably frequents the summits of hilly and mountainous 
districts, where there are no reeds and where water may be miles and miles 
distant”; whereas the Reedbuck is found “ either in pairs or in parties, never 
exceeding four in number,” only in low lying country along rivers which have 
reeds on their banks. ‘The one peculiarity common to both species is the 
fact that the males, when alarmed, give vent to a shrill whistle.” 
As regards the distribution of this species, the same writers inform us :— 
