The extreme beauty of this antelope led us to secure a group of them for the Field Museum.
The reedbuck is another of the smaller antelopes that carries a beautiful head, and, like nearly all of the antelopes, comes in many varieties, or subspecies.
[Photograph: A Wounded Wart Hog] [Photograph: By courtesy of W.D.Boyce A Grass Fire] [Photograph: A Maribou Stork] Our own relations with the reedbuck were limited to the high altitudes near the Mau escarpment and the broad, rolling, grassy downs along the numerous streams of the Guas Ngishu Plateau.

This subspecies is called the Uganda race of the bohor reedbuck--sometimes abbreviated to "bohor." If you say you've shot a "bohor" you will be understood to mean a bohor reedbuck.
[Drawing: _Reedbuck_] You will find the reedbuck in the tall reeds and bulrushes of the swamps and low places, where he finds good cover and good feeding; and also you will find him along the low, undulating, grass-covered hills near his water supply.

In the heat of the day they are up in the tall grass, where they remain until along in the afternoon.

They lie close, and, if discovered, will dart off with neck outstretched in such a way as to make it difficult to tell which is male and which female.
I have also seen the females use every means for protecting their lords and masters, standing up before them as they lie secreted in the grass and seeking to divert the attention of the hunter from the bucks to themselves.

This desire to protect the male is common to many of the antelope family, and numberless times I have seen a band of does attempt to screen the male and shield him from harm.
The reedbuck never travels in large numbers, seldom more than two or three, or at most, five or six, being bunched together.
[Drawing: _They Watched While the Buck Ran Away_] We had most of our reedbuck experiences while driving swamps for lions.
On these occasions many reedbuck would be driven out of the cover of the reeds and rushes, and go crashing up the slopes leading away from the swamp.