1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bushbuck

BUSHBUCK (Boschbok,) the South African name of a medium-sized red antelope (q.v.), marked
Female Bushbuck.with white lines and spots, belonging to a local race of a widely spread species, Tragelaphus scriptus. The males alone have rather small, spirally twisted horns. There are several allied species, sometimes known as harnessed antelopes, which are of a larger size. Some of these such as the situtunga (T. spekei) have the hoofs elongated for walking on swampy ground, and hence have been separated as Limnotragus.