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Bush Antelope

also called BUSH (q. v.), natives chiefly of the southern to a number of species of ANTELOPE and western parts of Africa. According tinct genus (cephalolophus). They are animals of more compact form, shorter to some naturalists, they form a dis- tinct genus (cephalolophus). They are limbs, and greater strength, but much arched form of the back. They have short, straight, or slightly curved horns, less agility, than the true or typical antelopes. They are remarkable for the situated far back, and often peculiar to pores, on each cheek. They frequent the male sex, with usually a long tuft of hair between them. They have no tear pits, but, instead of them, a naked glanshort, straight, or slightly curved horns, situated far back, and often peculiar to the male sex, with usually a long tuft of hair between them. They have no tear pits, but, instead of them, a naked glanpor jungles, thick forests and beds of reeds, and, when pursued, seek to escape by BUSHEL diving into a thicket. The commonest species is the duyker (C. mergens), living in pairs in the bushy districts of south Africa.

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