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between the two species in young condition and to com- 

 pare as far as possible their skulls. As I am not happy 

 enough to possess an adult skin nor adult skull of Str. 

 imherhis , I am forced to confine myself to a mere compa- 

 rative study of the young ones , the external form moreover 

 and the color of Str. kudu have been so often described 

 and there are specimens in so many Museums that this 

 species in adult stage needs no new description , mean- 

 while the adult Lesser Koodoo seems not to differ very 

 much from the young in color, as stated by Dr. Noack 

 (Der Zoologische Garten, 1886, p. 40) who described one 

 of Menges' Aderio or Str. imherhis as follows: »das Thier 

 war ein noch nicht ganz erwachsenes Weibchen, welches 

 in der Farbung genau mit dem Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1884, abgebildeten Bock übereinstimmte. Die Rückenhöhe 

 desselben betrug etwa 66 cm/' A comparative description 

 of the adult skull of Str. imherhis however remains still a 

 desideratum. 



There is a young female specimen of Str. kudu figured 

 in Gray's Knowsley's Menagerie, 1850, pi. 24, fig. 2, and 

 the named author states, I.e. p. 26: »in the Frankfort 

 Museum there is a male and female adult, a half-grown 

 and young specimens ; in the India House Museum is another 

 specimen, all from Abyssinia. They do not appear to dif- 

 fer from the Cape specimens, except in being smaller." 

 As the specimen from the India House Museum has turned 

 out to be a true imherhis , Messrs. Gray , Blyth and Sclater 

 had reason to suppose that there is in the Frankfort Museum a 

 whole and complete series of this interesting species! 



Dr. Noll at Frankfort, however, kindly furnished me 

 with the following information: »Das Senckenbergische 

 Museum zu Frankfurt a. M. besitzt 4 Kudu Antilopen, 

 1 cf und 2 9 s-d- und 1 cf juv. Dieselben sind 1834 von 

 Dr. Ed. Riippell in Abyssinien erlegt. (ƒ und 1 Q sind 

 gut behaart , das 9 heller braun mit 8 weisslichen Streifen , 

 das andere 9 is* schlecht im Haar, die Streifen nur ange- 

 deutet , das Junge hat 5 Streifen , das alte <ƒ 7 Streifen , 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XII. 



