THE STEINBOKS: KLIPSPRINGER, OUREBI, STEINBOK, GRYSBOK, MADOQUA--THE BUSH-BUCKS--Appearance--Distinctive Marks--THE FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPES--Peculiarity in the Chikarah--THE WATER ANTELOPES: NAGOR, REITBOK, LECHÈ, AEQUITOON, SING-SING, WATER-BUCK, POKU, REH-BOK--THE ELAND--Beef--Appearance--Captain Cornwallis Harris’ Description--Hunting--Scarcity--THE KOODOO--Appearance--King of Antelopes--ANGAS’ HARNESSED ANTELOPE--THE HARNESSED ANTELOPES: GUIB--BUSH BUCK, OR UKOUKA--Appearance--Pluck--THE BOVINE ANTELOPES--THE BUBALINE--HARTEBEEST--BLESBOK--BONTEBOK--SASSABY--THE GNU--Grotesque Appearance--Habits--BRINDLED GNU--THE CAPRINE ANTELOPES--SEROW--Ungainly Habits--GORAL--CAMBING-OUTAN--TAKIN--MAZAMA--THE CHAMOIS--Distribution--Appearance--Voice--Hunted--THE ORYXES--BLAUBOK--SABLE ANTELOPE--BAKER’S ANTELOPE--ORYX--BEISA--BEATRIX--GEMSBOK--ADDAX. THE STEINBOKS. THE KLIPSPRINGER, the OUREBI, the STEINBOK, and the GRYSBOK form a small section of the African Antelopes, elegant and small, with horns only in the males, these being straight, or nearly so. Their body hair is harsh. The Klipspringer stands a little under two feet high; it is the heaviest in build of the four; its horns are four inches long and curved a little forward. Its colour is olive. It lives singly or in pairs, in mountainous districts, and it was at one time so abundant in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope that its hair was employed to stuff saddles with. The Ourebi, in height and length of horn, resembles the last-mentioned species. Its build is very delicate, its general colour being a tawny yellow, white below. Its speed is very great. According to Mr. Drummond, “its peculiar colour so much resembles the soil on which it lies that, trusting to remain unobserved, it often allows you to get within fifteen or twenty yards of where it is squatting. It is a handsome and peculiarly graceful Antelope, extremely good eating, and well worth the hunter’s attention. One thing he should bear in mind is, that however slightly they may be wounded, they will go and lie down within a few hundred yards, if not chased by a Dog, and will in such cases very generally allow him to get within shot again.” The Steinbok is twenty inches high, with straight horns four inches long, large ears, and a mere stump of a tail. Its colour is red-brown, white below. [Illustration: HEAD OF FEMALE BUSH-BUCK.] The Grysbok, with the same measurement, is chocolate-red. The MADOQUA of Abyssinia is not bigger than a Hare, standing fourteen inches high, the slender legs being comparatively long. The horns, present only in the males, are not more than half the length of the head, being nearly straight, and curved a little forward. The tail is a mere stump. The back is reddish-brown, the sides grey; the face, together with a peculiar tuft between the horns, is red, as are the legs. The under parts are white. THE BUSH-BUCKS.[10]