212 ON STREPSICEROS KUDU 



Antilope chora, Rilppell, Abyssinia^ 22; Fischer^ Syn. 

 475. Hab. Abyssinia." 



If Mr. Blyth merely had read Smith's description above 

 mentioned and compared it with Smith's figures of cf and 

 Q of Damalis (Strepsiceros) capensis, he certainly would not . 

 have suggested that these figures truly represented adult 

 specimens of his new species, Strepsiceros (not Strepticeros 

 Blyth) imherhis, and Mr. Blyth is not quite right where 

 he writes, I.e. p. 52, that the male figured by Smith 

 shows not a trace of the fringe of long hairs down the 

 front of the neck with which the male of the Strepsiceros 

 kitdu so copiously is adorned ; I remark that the figure 

 shows correctly , although feebly , the named fringe down 

 the front of the neck , and that Smith described it very 

 correctly in the following terms: »the neck is robust, 

 rather long , fringed both above and beloiv , with some long 

 and coarse hair which superiorly forms a sort of mane, 

 about three and a half inches high and which extends 

 from the base of the horns to the hinder edge of the 

 shoulders ; inferiorly the long hair is irregularly disposed 

 and forms a thin shaggy coating to the throat ^ 



Like Mr. Blyth in 1869 so Dr. Sclaterin 1884 overlooked 

 Smith's accurately drawn description and apparently too 

 was induced in error by the but feebly represented fringe 

 in the figure. Dr. Sclater however seems to have been 

 in dubio, for he wrote (P. Z. S. L. 1884, p. 48): » Whether 

 Damalis capensis as represented on plate 42 of Smith's 

 illustrations really belongs to S. imberbis , as supposed by 

 Blyth , is , I think , very doubtful. It is true , the neck has 

 no fringe, but the horns have the open spiral of S. kudu 



eines Pferdes; Horner schwarz untl gewunden, wie bei den Addax, aber viel 

 grosser and dicker; Ilaaptfarbe rothbraun ; Stirn schwarz; Hinterfiisse schwarz- 

 lich; Schwanzquaste sehr lang." Notwithstanding Riippell in his »Neue Wirbel- 

 thiere" 1835 — 40, p. 26, said that Tendal is the name given by the Arabs to 

 Strepsiceros kudu which has a «Haarkamm liings des ganzen Vorderhalses", 

 Gray called in 1852 and later in his Handlist, 1873, always the Sir. imberbis. 

 Sir. tendal. 



Notes from the Leyden ]Miiseum, Vol. XII. 



