220 ON STREPSICEROS KUDU 



trasting with the more or less dark brown color of the 

 rest of the mane. 



Smith relates that »the sides of the head (of Str. kudu) 

 are variegated with several small irregular white spots, 

 one in front of each ear, one under each lower eye- 

 lid and one on each cheek." It seems to me that only 

 two cheek-spots are rather constantly present as well 

 in kudu as in imberbis, although in our halfgrown speci- 

 men of kudu no cheek-spots are perceptible, in our young 

 kudu the left cheek only has one spot and Mr. Selous 

 figures in his » Hunter's wanderings in Africa" two kudu- 

 heads each with three cheek-spots: I suppose that we have 

 here to do with abnormalities. 



In our young imberbis the so very characteristic white 

 angular line on the nose is not yet wholly developed , 

 the top of the angle is wanting. 



The tail near its basal part bears a pure white circle 

 in our young imberbis^ not present in our young kudu. 



In the skulls of our young kudu and imberbis there are 

 some striking features which I shortly wish to point out. 

 The coronoid process is surprisingly much more arched and 

 bent down in kudu; although the greatest length of the 

 kudu-sknW measures about 3 centimeters more than the 

 same length in imberbis, the distance between the first 

 upperpremolar and the end of the premaxilla differs only 

 3 millimeters in the two skulls; the kudu has the bony 

 palate much more concave and this for a greater extent, 

 and the hindmost part of the palate ends in kudu more 

 in a curved line and in imberbis in a rather sharp angle. 



In some Antelopes: Anoa depressicornis ., Kobus ellipsiprym- 

 nus , Aepijceros melampus , Euryceros euryceros , Tragelaphus 

 sylvaticus and Oreas oreas , each nasal bone presents a more 

 or less deep incision, so that the nasal bones may be 

 called bilobate : in oreas the incision is very deep , dividing 

 that bone in a very elongate outer lobe and a shorter inner 

 lobe. In kudu and imberbis the deep incision divides each nasal 

 bone in two very elongate lobes of about the same length. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, "Vol. XII. 



