AND STREPSICEROS IMBERBIS. 219 



between them are spread some pure white spots especially 

 on the thighs; our young kudu shows 6 indistinct stripes 

 on each side , our old male has 9 and the female 6 stripes. 

 Mr. Huet ascribes to the species »7 lignes verticales", Josef 

 Menges 4—5, Dr. Noll 5, 7 and 8, Dr. Noack 7, Smith 

 7 — 8 in cT, and in 9 ^^^ number is generally greater, 

 some of them occasionally bifurcate, and the white is less 

 pure; Hamilton Smith (1827) assured that the cf has four 

 or five white lines from behind the shoulders to the hips , 

 and two, three or four more across the croup, forming 

 in all eight or nine cross streaks, the Q is faintly marked 

 with three or four cross lines on the sides and one or 

 none on the thisfhs , meanwhile in the calves the marks 

 are less perceptible; according to Schreber there are» 7 — 9 

 mehr oder weniger deutliche , weisse Querstreifen an den 

 beiden Seiten. Die Lange, Zahl uud Vertheilung derselben 

 ist abweichend, so wie auch selbst der weisse Streifen auf 

 dem Rückengrath bisweilen gar nicht vorhanden ist. Die 

 Seitenstreifen sind bei den Weibchen schwacher, auch 

 scheinen sie sich überhaupt mit zunehmendera Alter zu 

 vermindern. Bei einem jungeu Ex. in der Par. Gallerie 

 lassen sich 9 Seitenstreifen deutlich bemerken, bei einem 

 ausgewachsenen sind nur 7 derselben vollkommen sichtbar, 

 die drei übrigen kaum zu unterscheiden." 



According to Dr. Sclater's figure in P. Z. S. L. 1884, 

 there are in imberhis about 1 1 stripes , Josef Menges 

 reports 12 to 15, Dr. Noack 11 to 13 and Mr. Huet 12. 



In conclusion the number of white stripes in kudu never 

 exceeds 10 and in imberhis always is greater than 10. 



In kudu the throat is adorned with a mane, in imberhis 

 with the well known two large pure white spots , but what 

 is unknown and very interesting is that our young kudu 

 shows a well developed fringe of hairs or mane , and at 

 the same time represents the two white spots of the 

 imberhis, although in smaller dimensions but on about the 

 same place on the throat, and the mane hairs at these 

 white spots are white colored , thus very strikingly con- 

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