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EAST AFRICAN LESSER KUDU. 

 Steepsiceros imbeebis austealis. 



Ammelaphus imherbis australis, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi. 



no. 13, p. 2, 1913. 

 Strepsiceros imherbis australis, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungulate 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. iii. p. 195, 1914. 



Closely allied to the Somaliland Lesser Kudu. Size about as in 

 the Nyala. Horns easily distinguished from those of the Bush- 

 bucks, Nyala, and Sitatunga by the greater development of the 

 spiral twist, there being at least two-and-a-half turns ; distinctly 

 ridged and rather smaller than in the typical race. Ears large ; 

 throat fringe absent. General colour darker than in the Somali- 

 land form, twelve or thirteen white transverse stripes on sides of 

 bod}^, extending from median dorsal stripe to underparts. Face 

 markings much as in Tragelaphus ; well-defined white gorget on 

 throat and another on chest. 



Horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 411) :— length on curve 27| ; 

 in straight line from point to base 22| ; circumference 6| ; spread 

 from tip to tip 13|. 



Typical locality, Longaya watering-place, Marsabit district, 

 Jubaland Province, Kenya Colony ; range apparently extensive, 

 from Southern Abyssinia in the north through the Lake Rudolf 

 district and Jubaland Province southwards across the Northern 

 Guaso Nyiro into the Tanaland and Seyidie Provinces, extending 

 westwards, north of Kilimanjaro, to the Rift Valley and from 

 thence south into Tanganyika Territory. 



385 - 19. 7. 15. 410. 12 March, 1912. Lower Guaso Nyiro, Kenya 



Colony. 



386 —19. 7. 15. 411. 13 March, 1912. Lower Guaso Nyiro, Kenya 



Colony. 



387 —19.7.15.412. 19 March, 1912. Lower Guaso Nyiro, Kenya 



Colony. 



KUDU. 

 Steepsiceeos steepsiceeos steepsiceeos. 



Antilope strepsiceros, Pallas, Misc. Zool. p. 9, 1766 ; Spicil. Zool. fasc. i. 



p. 17, 1767 ; fasc. xii. pp. 19 and 69, 1777. 

 Damalis strepsiceros, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 359, 



1827. 



