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(Crawshay) ; Mpongo in Kinyamwesi (Béhm) ; Mbawara, Mbala, or Mbawala 
in Kisuaheli; Dol of Somalis (Swayne). 
The typical form of this species is very nearly allied to the Bushbuck of the 
Cape Colony (7. sylvaticus), but is more strongly marked with white. Colour 
variable. Adult bucks sometimes nearly black or brownish grey, without 
traces of stripes and spots; sometimes marked with a few faint stripes and 
a few spots. 
Females and immature males are redder in colour than adult bucks, and 
generally weakly striped and spotted. 
Hab. From the Limpopo River across the Lower Zambesi to Nyasaland, 
and thence northwards to British East Africa and Somaliland. 
The great sportsman Roualeyn Gordon Cumming was the first observer of 
this East-African form of the Bushbuck, and with characteristic audacity 
named it after himself. He seems to have first met with it on the Limpopo 
in June 1847, and in his ‘ Hunter’s Life’ has given us the following account 
of his discovery :— 
““T was in a sequestered bend of the river, where the banks for several acres were 
densely clad with lofty reeds and grass which towered above my head as I sat on my 
horse’s back. Beyond the reeds and grass were trees of all sizes, forming a dense 
shade; this is the general character of the Limpopo, as far as I have yet seen. I was 
slowly returning to my camp, in anything but good humour at my want of success with 
the game I had just been after, when, behold, an antelope of the most exquisite beauty, 
and utterly unknown to sportsmen or naturalists, stood broadside in my path, looking 
me full in the face. It was a princely old buck of the ‘ Serolomootlooque’ of the 
Bakalahari, or ‘ Bush-buck of the Limpopo. He carried a very fine wide-set pair of 
horns. On beholding him I was struck with wonder and delight. My heart beat with 
excitement. I sprang from my saddle, but before I could fire a shot this gem of beauty 
bounded into the reeds and was lost to my sight. At that moment I would have given 
half what I possessed in this world for a broadside at that lovely antelope, and I at 
once resolved not to proceed farther on my expedition until 1 had captured him, 
although it should cost me the labour of a month. 
“The antelope having entered the reeds, I gave my horse to my after-rider, and 
with my rifle on full cock and at the ready I proceeded to stalk with extreme caution 
throughout the length and breadth of the cover; but I stalked in vain; the antelope 
had vanished, and was nowhere to be found. I then returned to my steed and rode 
slowly up the river’s bank towards my camp. I had ridden to within a few hundred 
yards of the wagons, and was meditating how I should best circumvent the Serolo- 
mootloogue, when once more this lovely antelope crossed my path; I had been 
