blue buck
Also bluebuck. 1. Transl. the Dutch name blauwbok.
| 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 88/2. |
2. A small South African antelope of the genus Cephalophus.
| 1835 J. W. D. Moodie Ten Years S. Africa II. 139 The woods also abound with..an elegant little antelope,..called the ‘blaawe bock’ or blue buck. 1893 J. Noble Handbk. Cape & S. Afr. 62 The diminutive bluebuck, not bigger than a rabbit. |