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  • Nyala (Tragelaphus angasi), wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), steinbuck (Raphicerus campestris) and warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) are also common to the ecoregion.

    Zambezian coastal flooded savanna 2007

  • They are perfectly harmless, and live on small animals, chiefly the rodentia; occasionally the steinbuck and pallah fall victims, and are sucked into its comparatively small mouth in boa-constrictor fashion.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Other animals, such as the duiker (‘Cephalopus mergens’) or puti (of the Bechuanas), the steinbuck

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Along the fringe of the river, too, dwelt the lordly waterbuck, magnificent and proud as the stags of Landseer; and the tiny steinbuck and duiker, no bigger than jack-rabbits, but perfect little deer for all that.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Waterbuck, bushbuck, steinbuck, impalla, hartebeest and zebra dwell in comparative immunity from danger and may be seen in hundreds, grazing on the hills or in the woods that fringe the river.

    In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

  • We saw sing-sing and steinbuck, and other animals, and heard lions nearly every night.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • For upward of a mile the hunters encountered nothing but a few dik-dik and steinbuck -- tiny grass antelope, too small for the purpose.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • For instance, there's the oribi and the dik-dik, to say nothing of the steinbuck and the klipspringer.

    In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

  • From the direction of camp, evidently jumped by the boys, a steinbuck loped gracefully, pausing every few minutes to look back, his dainty legs tense, his sensitive ears pointed toward the direction of disturbance.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Lying in the grass, listening to the droning flies, I tried to tell myself that I was watching a momentous battle; that matters of life and death were on hand: but the wind laughed through the grasses at the very notion, and the timid steinbuck leaped up quite close to me, as if to say, "Who's afraid?"

    The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907

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