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S. Africa, p. 241, 1897; Crawshay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, 

 p. 659; Jentink, Mus. Pays-Bas, vol. xii, p. 211, 1890; W. L. 

 Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 153, 1891 ; Flower and 

 LydeTilcer, Study of Mammals, p. 348, 1891 ; Inverarity, Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. vi, p. 468, 1891, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 445, 1899 ; Nicliolls and Eglington, Sports- 

 man in S. Africa, p. 52, 1892 ; Sivayne, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 

 p. 301, Seventeen Trips to Somaliland, p. 302, 1895 ; Lydehher, 

 Horns and Hoofs, p. 25, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 p. 440, 1899 ; Jacksoji, Big Game Shooting {Badminton Libr.), 

 vol. i, p. 288, 1894, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 454 ; Thomas, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 145, 1896, p. 798; Matschie, Sdugethiere 

 Deutsch-OstafriJca, p. 136, 1895; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat,, 

 Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 81, 1897; Elliot, Field Mus. Zool. Pub. 

 vol. i, p. 132, 1900 ; de Wiiiton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 83 ; 

 Potvell-Cotton, Unknoivn Africa, p. 574, 1904 ; DraJce-Brockman, 

 Mammals of Somali, p. 92, 1910. 



Strepsiceros excelsus, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, 

 p. 196, 1846. 



Damalis (Strepsiceros) capensis, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, 

 pi. xii, 1859. 



Antilope (Addax) strepsiceros, Laurillard, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat, 

 vol. i, p. 620, 1861. 



Tragelaphus strepsiceros, Heuglin, Reise Weiss, Nil, p. 319, 1869, 

 Eeise Nordost-Afrika, p. 113, 1877. 



Strepsiceros strepsiceros zainbesiensis, Lorenz, Ann, Hof, Mus. 

 Wicn, vol. ix, Notizen, p. 62, 1894. 



(?) Antilope torticornis, Hermann, Obs. Zool. pt. i, p. 87, 1804.* 



Kudu (Koodoo), or Koedoe. 



The type species. 



Size very large (shoulder-height from about 50 to 

 52 inches) ; throat without white gorget, but heavily fringed ; 

 and horns forming a much more open spiral than in pre- 

 ceding species. General colour ranging from reddish fawn 

 to (in old animals) pale bluish grey ; neck brown at base 

 and darker than shoulder ; head darker than fore part of 

 neck, with a whitish area round each eye, and an infra- 

 orbital chevron, two or three spots on each side of cheeks, 

 edges of upper lips, and chin and under surface of lower jaw 

 white ; a thickish fringe of white and blackish brown hairs 

 extending from middle of under surface of lower jaw to 

 lower part of throat, which lacks a white gorget ; neck and 

 withers with a brown mane, continued posteriorly as a white 

 fringe to root of tail ; sides of body and haunches marked 

 with from about four to nine or ten vertical white stripes ; tail 



* Vide " Book of Antelopes," vol. iv, p. 175. 



