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be found only in those parts of the Colony and of Caffraria where sufficient cover exists 
to afford it a safe asylum. Naturally preferring solitude, the buck is nevertheless 
frequently found in the society of the doe, accompanied during the breeding-season 
by one or two kids, but never by adult individuals. Every specimen that I have seen 
displayed a bare ring around the neck, from which, by some process not satisfactorily 
explained, the hair had been removed as if through long confinement by a chain and 
collar. Very old subjects wear white stockings, gartered above the knee, and it is 
usual to find a narrow white tape along the back, partially concealed by the goat-like 
mane which bristles from the ridge of the spine. But of these characters none are 
constant, all being often absent in the female, and even in the non-adult male, whose 
lighter coloured coats are never so prominently ‘picked out’ as the dark robes of the 
patriarchs.” 
Messrs. Nicolls and Eglington, in their ‘Sportsman in South Africa,’ inform 
us that at the present time the Bushbuck is still plentiful in all the maritime 
divisions of the Cape Colony and Natal, wherever there are any considerable 
belts of thick bush. It is not usual to find more than a pair of adults 
together, and the animals seldom emerge from the impenetrable bush except 
at night-time, when they come out into the open glades to feed. The bare 
patches on the neck alluded to by Harris are explained by these authors to 
be caused by the horns being constantly thrown backwards along the neck, 
which thus becomes denuded of hair. 
In the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth we are told, and in other districts 
of the Colony, the Bushbuck is very strictly preserved, and battues are held 
every year about Easter-time, when large drives of them take place. Numbers 
of natives are employed with the assistance of dogs to beat the wooded 
kloofs, and to drive the game towards the guns, which are placed in the 
narrow necks of the valleys. Excellent sport is thus obtained. 
When we proceed as far up the coast as the Limpopo the Cape Bushbuck, 
as we shall presently more fully explain, is replaced by Cumming’s Bushbuck 
(Tragelaphus roualeyni). In this Bushbuck, as Mr. Selous informs us, the 
adult rams are of a brownish grey, often without a sign of any spots, and the 
adult females of a dark red with a few white spots. The young rams, 
however, are of a red colour and a good deal spotted, and have a few faint 
transverse stripes, while the young females are also more spotted than the 
old ones. If, however, Mr. Selous continues, we examine the Bushbucks 
found on the Zambesi to the east of the Victoria Falls, the adult rams are 
in colour like the young rams of the Limpopo, being of a dark red thickly 
