AND STREPSICEROS IMBERBIS. 



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already pointed out by Blyth, Sclater and others. Blyth, 

 Sclater and Willoughby ^) have published drawings of the 

 horns of Str. imherUs : those given by Blyth , 1. c. p. 54 , 

 represent loose horns and therefore learn nothing as to 

 their position; the horn from base to tip measures 19^2 

 inches in a straight line and the greatest width apart (at 

 the tips) is 12 inches, the proportion thus 1 to 0.6; the 

 horns are however those of a two-thirds grown specimen; 

 Dr. Sclater's figure (1. c. p. 47 , fig. 1 , not fig. 2) accords 

 very well with the measurements on p. 46, the proportion 

 of the latter being 1 to 0.48 and of the former 1 to 0.44 , 

 the figure thus gives a very good impression of the rela- 

 tive position of the horns; Captain Willoughby gives the 

 length of horns from base to tips in a straight line 17 

 inches, width between the tips 14 inches (see explanation 

 of plate 1 2) , the proportion thus being 1 to 0.82 , in the 

 figure (front view) however the proportion is 1 to 0.54 ! 

 The reason is that the length of the horns is about 

 half an inch too great in the figure , meanwhile the distance 

 of the tips has been accurately drawn at '/15 natural size: in 

 the side view (see the same plate) the horns have been drawn 

 still longer! at about i|,„ instead of Vis natural size! It 

 is a great pity that the named figures have not accurately 

 been drawn, because they are hitherto the only figures of 

 a head with horns of an adult Lesser Koodoo. 



In the P. Z. S. L., 1884, is a beautifully colored plate 

 of a young male specimen of the Lesser Koodoo (Plate IV) 

 and our Museum has purchased a specimen of the same 

 size which died some time ago in the London Zoological 

 Gardens; according to Mr. Frank E. Beddard the locality 

 of this specimen was Malindi, north of Mombas. As we 

 possess also a young male specimen of about the same age 

 of Str. kudu^ I will try to trace the external differences 



1) East Africa and its big game, by Captain Sir John C. Willoughby, Bart. 

 1889, plate 1, figs. 2, 2. 



2) By a mistake apparently he calls here the Lesser Koodoo, S(r. kudu. 

 instead of Str. imberbis. 



Notes from th.e Xjeydeii Mu.seum, Vol. XU. 



