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GRACEFUL AFRICAN ANTELOPES 
body is square and robust, with a short broad head and small pointed 
muzzle. The horns are about four inches long, round, distant, vertical 
but slightly inclined forwards. The fur is ashy colored at the base, 
brown in the middle and yellow at the tips, giving an agreeable olive 
appearance. The legs are robust for climbing and the hoofs sub¬ 
divided into two segments and jagged at the edges so as to give it the 
power of holding on to the steep sides of smooth rock. The doe, as 
usual, is hornless, and they are usually found in pairs, inhabiting the 
rocks and precipices. 
The Steenbok. —A species found chiefly among the bushes on 
high ground is the steenbuck or steenbok, as it is commonly known. 
Standing about twenty inches high at the shoulder, it is about thirty- 
five inches long. The head is short and oval, with a pointed snout and 
carrying horns vertical, parallel and nearly straight, four inches in 
length, slender, round and pointed. The ears are large, round and 
open, and the tail is but an inch long, having the appearance of a 
stump, beyond which the hair does not protrude. The general color 
of the steenbok is yellowish-red with occasionally a cast of brown or 
crimson. The belly is white and the groin naked and black. The buck 
and doe are usually found together, the doe being similar but hornless. 
Sometimes solitary. 
The Grysbok. —In size much like the steenbok, the grysbok is 
darker in color, being a deep chocolate red intermixed with numerous 
single white hairs. The forehead is marked with a black horseshoe¬ 
shaped design. The shape of the head is also somewhat like that of 
the steenbok, it being very broad and short and carrying an obtusely 
pointed nose. The horns are about three and a half inches long, 
smooth, round, slender and vertical or slightly inclined forward. They 
are found usually among the wooded tracts along the seacoast. 
The Duiker. —A somewhat larger antelope than those imme¬ 
diately preceding is the duiker, standing about two feet at the shoulder 
and having an extreme length of three feet eight inches. Its horns 
are about four inches long, close together and bending backward and 
outward, pointed tips and wrinkled at the base. The color scheme 
varies, but is usually a burnt olive above and white beneath. The 
forehead is covered with a patch of long bright tawny hair, a dark 
