THE DUIKERS 
Peninsula or any other part of Africa south of the Zambesi, or in East 
Africa or the Sudan, I have always found them identical in habits and 
mode of life. At certain seasons of the year they may be met with in pairs, 
male and female, or a female with a young one, but during the greater 
part of the year both males and females appear to live entirely alone. 
During the heat of the day they lie up in bush or long grass, and will not 
move unless very closely approached; but in the evening and early 
morning they may always be found moving about and feeding through 
the open spaces amongst the scattered bush or open forest they usually 
frequent. They eat not only grass, but leaves and berries as well, and 
I always thought their meat very good. In South Africa the females of 
the common open-bush duiker sometimes carry horns, but in my own 
experience I have only met with three such cases. Duikers are sometimes 
hunted with hounds in South Africa, and are said to give very good runs. 
Female duikers give birth to a single fawn every year at the commencement 
of the rainy season, and if captured young, these fawns become quite tame 
in a very short time. The horns of the open -bush duikers average from 
four to five inches in length, the longest pair known measuring six and 
a half inches. 
The thick-bush duikers are mainly distinguished from the typical 
C. grimmi and its various geographical races by their very small rounded 
ears, short legs, and the fact that both sexes carry horns. Being all of 
them inhabitants of dense bush and forests in which there is a thick 
undergrowth, they are seldom seen, and very little is known of their habits. 
They may be shot by watching for them in the early morning or late 
evening in some open space in the jungles they frequent, or by organized 
drives in which tracts of thick bush are beaten out by a number of natives 
and all animals they contain driven forward to guns, if the drive has been 
organized by white men, or into nets if only natives are engaged in the 
hunt. 
As these thick-bush duikers are all of exactly similar habits, it will not 
be necessary in the present work to do anything beyond describing the 
different species and enumerating the localities where they may be found. 
The crowned duiker ( Cephalophus coronatus) is a small species, standing 
about fifteen or sixteen inches at the shoulder, which ranges from 
Senegambia to Lake Tchad. The general colour of this species is greenish 
yellow, but the tip of the tail is black, as are the legs below the knees and 
hocks, whilst there is a dark streak on the nose. In its habits and general 
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