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Hab. Forest-districts of South Africa up to the Limpopo, north of which 
it is replaced by 7. roualeynt. i 
The Bushbuck, so named by the Dutch settlers at the Cape from its being 
an inhabitant of the forest (bosch), was first made known to science by the 
famous Swedish traveller and naturalist Sparrman, who obtained specimens 
of it during his expedition to the Cape, and described it on his return home 
in the ‘ Acta Holmiensia,’ and subsequently in the several editions of his 
‘* Travels.’ Sparrman specially mentions Groot Vaders-bosch and Houtniquas- 
bosch, in the south of the Colony, as the districts in which he had encountered 
this Antelope. 
The Bushbuck was also described and figured by Buffon in the ‘Supple- 
ment’ to his ‘ Histoire Naturelle’ from information received from Allamand 
and first published in Schneider's edition of the ‘ Histoire Naturelle’ issued 
at Amsterdam. It was likewise mentioned by Thunberg, Lichtenstein, and 
other earlier writers, who adopted Sparrman’s scientific name for it. Little 
of moment, however, is added to our knowledge of its habits and range until 
we come to Harris’s illustrated volume on the ‘Game-Animals of Southern 
Africa, published in 1840. In this work a special chapter is devoted to an 
account of the sport of hunting the Bushbuck along with the Grysbok and 
the Blue Duiker, which are all figured together in the twenty-sixth plate of 
Harris’s ‘ Portraits.’ This author discourses eloquently on the first-named 
Antelope as follows :— 
“ Aptly enough has this elegant and game-looking Antelope been designated the 
‘ Bush-goat’; since, concealing itself during the day in the deepest glens of the wooded 
mountains, it quits not its retreat except during the matin hours, when it warily sallies 
forth to graze along the outskirts of the forest, or tempted by the bright moonlight 
nights, makes a foray upon the neighbouring gardens and cultivation. Slow of foot, 
and easily overtaken if surprised in open Situations, it is wise to he thus close in its 
native jungles, the thickest of which it traverses with ease—darting from one shrubbery 
to another, and forcing its elastic form through the plaited undergrowth, with its horns 
so crouched along the neck as to prevent their impeding progress by becoming entangled 
in the sylvan labyrinth. So perfectly does the voice of this singular species counterfeit 
the barking of a dog that the benighted wayfarer is said to have been decoyed by it 
into the most lonely depths of the forest, vainly hoping to discover some human 
habitation, whereas every step has but removed him further from the abodes of man. 
Combining singular elegance and vigour with the most marked and decided colouring, 
the Bushbuck stands quite by itself among the Antelopes of Southern Africa, and is to 
