THE KUDU 



the Sahara on the west. The region of the Congo 

 is its northern hmit. Eastwards it ranges into 

 Abyssinia and Somahland. 



Pallas was the first man to name the Kudu from 

 some mounted heads which he saw in the Leyden 

 Museum, and he called it Antelope strepsiceros. The 

 Latin word Strepsiceros was subsequently adopted 

 as the generic name of this animal. Sir Andrew 

 Smith, in the South African Quarterly Journal in 

 1834, ^^^ ^^^ fi^^^ ^^^ ^° name the Kudu from com- 

 plete specimens ; therefore his specific name of 

 capensis^ we think, should be retained, as it is 

 undesirable for the generic and specific names to 

 be identical, if there are any reasonable grounds for 

 setting aside the law of priority. 



The Kudu, owing to Government protection, 

 still exists in the forest-covered districts of the 

 Cape Province from Riversdale and Prince Albert 

 divisions, and eastwards to Albany and Fort Beau- 

 fort. It is met with in fairly large numbers in the 

 bush-covered portions of the Uitenhage District, 

 and along the Koonap and Great Fish Rivers. It 

 also inhabits the wooded portions of the country in 

 Prieska and Griqualand West. 



There is, at present, upwards of 10,000 Kudu in 

 the Cape Province. Outside this province its 

 habitat includes South-West Africa, Bechuanaland, 

 Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Zululand and Portuguese 

 territory. 



North of the Zambesi it extends to Abyssinia 

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