. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . end of the dry season, in October and November. The flesh I always thought very good, though the fat is hard and clogs on the teeth and the roof of the mouth whilst being eaten. I once saw a wounded lechwe that was lying down, spring forwards and drive the point of one of its very sharp horns right into the chest of a Kafir who was approaching in face of it, puncturing one of his lungs and inflicting what might have been a very bad wound. I was, however, close behind it, and when it sprang forwards the Kafir was stooping to s
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . end of the dry season, in October and November. The flesh I always thought very good, though the fat is hard and clogs on the teeth and the roof of the mouth whilst being eaten. I once saw a wounded lechwe that was lying down, spring forwards and drive the point of one of its very sharp horns right into the chest of a Kafir who was approaching in face of it, puncturing one of his lungs and inflicting what might have been a very bad wound. I was, however, close behind it, and when it sprang forwards the Kafir was stooping to seize it by the horn, and I believe that it injured him by accident and was really only trying to escape. At any rate I have never seen any other antelope of this species make any attempt to defend itself with its horns when wounded. The lechwe is very tenacious of life, and I have sometimes been astounded at the distance one of these animals has run after having been shot right through the heart. „ _, „ 0 F. C. Selous. Great <k Small Game of Afri ca Pl VIII. PLATE VIII Common Rcedbuck Head. 3. Nagor Head. Bohor Head. 4. Mountain Recdbuck Head, v Vaal RhebokHcad. The Reedbuck 305 THE REEDBUCKS Genus Cervicapra The presence of a bare or short-haired patch, apparently acting as agland, below each ear, and the comparatively short and bushy tail, serveto distinguish at a glance the reedbucks from their near relatives the water-bucks and kobs. The horns of the males are regularly curved upwards,and sometimes also forwards. In the skull the premaxilla- are not extendedupwards and backwards to join the nose-bones. Four well-defined species of reedbuck may be recognised, viz. :— 1. Common Reedbuck {Cervicapra arundinum). 2. Bohor „ ( „ bohor). 3. Nagor „ ( „ redunca). 4. Mountain „ ( „ fulvorufula). The latter, which is distinguished by its small size, coupled with thelack of a forward hooking of the horns, may be divided into the typicalsouthern race, an imperfec
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