THE MOUNTAIN REEDBUGKS 
Africa, and its horns are shorter and straighter, having only a slight 
curve forwards at the tip. They seldom measure more than six and a 
half inches in length. In the old bucks there is always a cushion of 
skin-covered gristle at the base of the horns which never gets hard or 
becomes absorbed in the horn. In habits Chanters* reedbucks are identical 
with rooi rheboks. 
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