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Reedbuck, in its habits and mode of life it differs entirely from that species. 
The Reedbuck, as its name implies, loves the neighbourhood of rivers and 
lakes and swamps, and is never found far away from water. It does not 
occur in herds, but in small families, a male and female usually living 
together, the latter often accompanied by its last year’s kid. It is worthy of 
remark, however, that the Reedbuck though, as a rule, it is a dweller on level 
ground on the borders of rivers and lakes, in some parts of the country may 
often be found on stony ridges where these latter are in the immediate 
vicinity of rivers, as is often the case in Mashunaland. As the Red Rhébuck 
is not found in any of the countries between the Limpopo and the Zambesi, 
through which my various hunting expeditions have led me, my knowledge of 
these little Antelopes is not very extensive. However, whilst journeying 
slowly from Port Elizabeth to the Diamond Fields by bullock-waggon first 
in 1871, and for the second time in 1876, I saw a considerable number of 
them both in the hills of the Cape Colony and in those of the Orange Free 
State, and shot in all about a dozen specimens. More recently, in the early 
part of 1888, I searched for and found a good many Red Rhébuck in the arid 
hills near Sechele’s town *, and secured the heads of three fine males for my 
collection. According to my experience the Red Rhébuck is usually to be 
met with in small herds of from three or four to fifteen animals, only one full- 
grown buck being with the herd, though a young male or two with horns not 
fully developed may also be present. Old males at certain seasons leave the 
herds and live alone, as is the case with all other gregarious Antelopes. The 
hills on which I found Red Rhébuck were of no great altitude, rising as a 
rule from 500 to 1000 feet above the surrounding country. Often they were 
flat or table-topped, with a precipitous cliff of 50 or 60 feet in height just 
below the table-like summit. In such cases I often found the Red Rhébuck 
lying in the bushes just at the base of these cliffs. Where arid stony hills, 
which they are known to frequent, are intersected by ravines, in which grow a 
certain amount of scrubby bush, Red Rhébuck will most likely be found in 
the neighbourhood of such ravines. In my experience these Antelopes are 
usually to be met with well up the sides and near the tops of the hills which 
they frequent, and are best hunted from the summit of the hill, as they always 
run upwards when alarmed. In the hills where I last hunted Red Rhébuck 
in Sechele’s country, there was absolutely no water whatever, and in the Cape 
* In the southern part of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. 
