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The koodoo bull stands 5 ft., or a little more, 

 at the withers. Its general colour varies from rufous 

 grey to a greyish-blue, and especially in the older 

 animals this bluish colouring will be found predomin- 

 ating. Cornwallis Harris, in his Portraits of the 

 Game and Wild Animals of Soiothem Africa, depicts 

 a male koodoo of a bright sky-blue colour. The 

 animal is well drawn, but the colouring is decidedly 

 too brilliant. I never saw the skin of a koodoo or 

 heard of an example of quite so vivid a colouring. 

 Along the spine runs a white list, and from this thin 

 white stripes extend transversely across the body 

 towards the belly. Just under the eye on either 

 side is a clear white band which meets on the front 

 of the face ; while upon the cheeks two or three 

 circular white spots are to be found. The head is 

 neat, gamelike, and altogether beautiful, and is sur- 

 mounted by tall spreading spiral horns of great 

 weight and size, which diminish in corkscrew-like 

 formation to sharp points. The greatest recoi'ded 

 length of a koodoo's horns appears to be 4 ft. J in. 

 in a straight line ; over the curve, 5 ft. 3 in. The 

 greatest length of the horns of the lesser koodoo in a 

 straight line is 2 ft. 2 J in, ; over the curve, 2 ft. 11 J 

 in. — a great falling off.^ There are often great and 

 striking differences in the spread of koodoo horns. 

 Fine specimens will sometimes spread between the 

 * From Records of Great Game^ by Rowland Ward. 



