Bush-buck

[ad. Du. bosch-bok; see BOSCH¹.] A small species of African antelope, also called the Bush-goat.

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1838. W. C. Harris, Narr. Exped. S. Africa, App. 391. The Bush Buck…. Adult male about two feet eight inches high and five feet two inches long.

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1852. Blackw. Mag., LXXI. 294. A shot at an ostrich or bushbuck.

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1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, 343. In the mornings and evenings the pretty little bush-buck (Tragelaphus sylvatica) ventures out of the mangroves, to feed.

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