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during the daytime, and quitting it only at early dawn for the purpose of feeding in the neigh- 
boring meadows. It is at this time that it is pursued by the hunters, who station themselves on 
the margin of the woods and shoot it as it conies out to graze. It affords excellent venison. 
The Black-striped Bush-Buck, Antilope Offilbii, is of a pale bay-brown color. The horns 
are short, thick, and conical. It is a native of Fernando Po. 
The Bay Bush-Buck, Cephalopics badius, is very like the last species, but is of a darker bay- 
color ; the legs are blackish, and the neck bright bay, and not blackish-bay as in the Antilope 
Ogilhii. It is a native of Sierra Leone. 
The Bay Bush-Goat, C. dorsalis, is of a dark bay-color, with shoulders and legs darker. It 
is a native of Sierra Leone. 
The Black Bush-Buck, C niger, is a native of the coast of Guinea, distinguished by its sooty- 
black color. 
The Natal Bush-Buck or Rhoode-Boc, C. JVatalensis, is of a bright red-bay color, and has 
short conical horns. It inhabits the forests about Port Natal and the country to the eastward, 
living in the thick brushwood which fills up the intervals of the larger trees. It feeds on grass, 
the young shoots of trees, and the delicate twigs of smaller shrubs. 
The CoQUETOON, C. rufilatus^ is of a deep reddish-bay color; the horns are conical, rather 
elongated, obscurely annulated, and slightly recurved. This is the Grimme of Buffon and F. Cu- 
vier. It is a native of Western Africa. 
The GuBVEi, C. Maxwellii, is of a gray-brown or sooty-black color. It is the Royal Antilope 
and Pigmy Antilope of Pennant and Shaw. It is a native of Senegal and Gambia. 
THE KLEBNE-BOC. 
The NouMETZi, Cape Guevei, or Kleene-Boc, G. pygmma^ is about one foot high at the shoul- 
der ; the horns one and a half inch long in the male, three-quarters of an inch in the female. The 
color is a dark slaty-brown. It is called by the Dutch colonists of the Cape Kleene-Boc., Kleene 
Blauw-Boc, Blauw-Bokje, all signifying Little Goat or Little Blue Goat. It inhabits South 
Africa, and lives singly or in pairs among the bushes. It is extremely active, and of a mild and 
timid disposition ; but from the nature of the thick bushes in which it resides is not often seen 
even in those districts where it most abounds. It exhibits considerable sagacity in eluding pur- 
suit, and when domesticated soon becomes familiar, and learns to distinguish those about it and 
to answer to its name. 
This species is the A. coerulea of Colonel Smith and the A. pygmcea of M. Desmarest, who con- 
founds it with the Guevei. 
The Black-rumped Guevei, C. onelanorheus^ is of a gray color, with the rump and upper part 
'^of the back of ;a black color. It is a native of Fernando Po. 
