THE ANTELOPES OF SOMALI-LAND. 



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and the district of Kilima-njaro. The Lesser Koodoo was first 

 discriminated as a species by Blyth in i86g. Blyth pointed out 

 that this Koodoo differs from the larger and better known form 

 (5. kudu) in its smaller size, in the absence of the fringe of long hair 

 down the neck in front, and in the much more compressed spiral of 

 the curvature of the horns. From the second of these characteristics 

 he proposed to call the species Stvepsicevos imhevbis.^^ Since Blyth's 

 time I have had the pleasure of making this beautiful antelope better 



Fig. 5.— Senegal Antelope, Rubalis seiiegatensis (Froc. Zool. Soc, 1890, p. 355). 



known, both from preserved specimens, and from examples living in 

 the Society's Gardens.'^ 



In Somali-land, Captain Swayne tells us, the Great Koodoo keeps 

 to the mountain ranges, while the Lesser Koodoo resorts to the bush- 

 covered slopes at their bases. The Greater Koodoo is the largest of 

 all the Somali Antelopes, a large bull standing about 52 inches in 

 height at the shoulders. A good pair of its horns will measure 



i''^ Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 51. 



1* " On the Lesser Koodoo," Proc. Zool. Soc, i5 



h P- 45. pl- iv- 



