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white below with a black tip ; under-parts greyish, tending 

 to black in middle ; legs rich fawn to knees and hocks, the 

 front pair whitish on inner side at origin and behind knees, 

 as well as on inner and hind aspects of shanks, with a pale 

 blackish brown patch on inner side above knees, and the 

 pasterns black behind, with faint traces of a pair of white 



Fig. 30. — Skull and Horns of Kudu {Strepsiceros strepsiceros) . 



spots above the hoofs in front ; in hind pair the inner side 

 of the upper portion of the thighs and the front surface down 

 to the hocks white, this gradually dying out between the 

 hocks and pasterns. Basal length of skull (in southern race) 

 about 15 inches, interval between orbit and muzzle 9, and 

 maximum width about 6| inches. Horns with an open 

 spiral ; fine examples measure from 55 to 61 inches in length 



