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NOTE XXXVII. 



ON STREPSICEROS KUDU AND STREPSICEROS 

 IMBERBIS. 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



Augu8t 1890. 



(Plate 9). 



In a » notice of two overlooked species of Antelope" by 

 Mr. Edward Blyth (P. Z. S. L. 1869) we read on p. 55 

 the following passage : » Dr. Gray , in his » List of specimens 

 »of Mammalia in the British Museum" (1850, p. 143), 

 » under Strepticeros kudu notices »Var. smaller. Inhabits 

 » Abyssinia; Mus. E. I. C. ; Mus. Frankfort, adult and 

 »young." I consider this small kudu, of which adults of 

 »both sexes are figured and described by Sir Andrew 

 » Smith, to be decidedly a well-marked species; and there- 

 »fore I now propose ïor iiihe name oï Strepticeros imberbis." 



As Dr. Gray did not publish in 1850 a book entitled 

 »List of specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum", 

 Mr. Blyth apparently meant herewith the well-known 

 » Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the collec- 

 tion of the British Museum" published by Dr. Gray in 

 1852; and here we find on p. 134 (not 143 Blyth) under 

 the head Strepsiceros (not Strepticeros Blyth) kudu: »var. 1. 

 Smaller. — Mus. Ind. Camp. Lond, and Frankfort. Anti- 

 lope TendalH), Riippell^ Abyssinia^ 22; Fischer, Syn. 475. 



1) Tendal (not Tendall Gray) is the name given by the Arabs (Cf. Riippell's 

 Atlas, 1826, p. 22) to an Antilope, described by Riippell as follows: «Grosse 



^otes from th.e lL<eyden IMuseura, Vol. XII. 



