SOME NATURAL HISTORY 263 
Our own relations with the reedbuck were limited 
to the high altitudes near the Mau escarpment and 
the broad, rolling, grassy downs along the numer¬ 
ous streams of the Guas Ngishu Plateau. This sub¬ 
species is called the Uganda race of the bohor 
reedbuck—sometimes abbreviated to “bohor.” If 
you say you’ve shot a “bohor” you will be understood 
to mean a bohor reedbuck. 
You will find the reedbuck 
in the tall reeds and bulrushes 
of the swamps and low places, 
where he finds good cover and 
good feeding; and also you 
will find him along the low, 
undulating, grass - covered 
hills near his water supply. 
In the heat of the day they 
are up in the tall grass, where 
they remain until along in the 
afternoon. They lie close, 
and, if discovered, will dart 
off with neck outstretched in 
such a way as to make it dif¬ 
ficult to tell which is male and which female. 
I have also seen the females use every means for 
protecting their lords and masters, standing up be¬ 
fore them as they lie secreted in the grass and seek¬ 
ing to divert the attention of the hunter from the 
bucks to themselves. This desire to protect the 
male is common to many of the antelope family, 
and numberless times I have seen a band of does 
