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REEDBUCK (Dutch rietbok)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 974 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REEDBUCK (Dutch rietbok) , the popular name of a foxy red See also:South See also:African See also:antelope (Cervicapra arundineum) of See also:medium See also:size, with a moderately See also:long bushy tail, a See also:bare gland-patch behind the See also:ear, and in the male rather See also:short horns which See also:bend forwards in a See also:regular See also:curve. There are several other See also:species of allied African antelopes included in the genus Cervicapra to which the name of reedbuck is also applied, one of these ranging as far N. as See also:Abyssinia, and another inhabiting W. See also:Africa.

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