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predated the flesh of the waterbuck. We did not. It Is the 
poorest eating of African antelope—and among the big 
antelope only the eland is good as a steady diet. 
One day we drove a big swamp, putting a hundred por¬ 
ters across it in line, while Kermit and I walked a little 
ahead of them along the edges, he on one side and I on the 
other. I shot a couple of bushbuck, a ewe and a young 
ram; and after the drive was over he shot a female leopard 
as she stood on the side of an ant-hill. 
There were a number of both reedbuck and bushbuck 
in the swamp. The reedbuck were all ewes, which we did 
not want. There were one or two big bushbuck rams, but 
they broke back through the beaters; and so did two 
bushbuck ewes and one reedbuck ewe, one of the bushbuck 
ewes actually knocking down a beater. They usually 
either cleared out while the beaters were still half a mile 
distant, or else waited until they were almost trodden on. 
The bushbuck rams were very dark colored; the hornless 
ewes, and the young, were a brilliant red, the belly, the 
under side and edges of the conspicuous fluffy tail, and a 
few dim spots on the cheeks and flanks, being white. Al¬ 
though these buck frequent thick cover, forest, or swamp, 
and trust for their safety to hiding, and to eluding observa¬ 
tion by their stealthy, skulking ways, their coloration has not 
the smallest protective value, being on the contrary very 
conspicuous in both sexes, but especially in the females and 
young, who most need protection. Bushbuck utter a loud 
bark. The hooves of those we shot were very long, as is 
often the case with water-loving, marsh-frequenting species. 
There is a curious collar-like space around the neck on 
which there is no hair. Although if anything smaller than 
