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ponderous ridge ascending in a spiral direction nearly to the tips. 

 Proportions of tlie body like those of a hull. Neck very thick. 

 Shoulders very deep. Larynx very prominent. A broad deep 

 dewlap^ fringed Avith long wiry brown hair, descending to the 

 knees. A crest of bristles from the forehead, passing upwards and 

 recurrent along the edge of the neck. Legs short and bull-like. 

 Hind-quarters very large. Tail two feet three or four inches long, 

 with a large tuft of coarse brown hair. Hide black. Hair very 

 short. General colour rufous dun, or ashy grey tinged with ochre. 

 A muzzle. No suborbital sinus. 



Female smaller, and slighter, with longer and more slender horns. 

 No dewlap, but a tuft of hair on the larynx. Colour redder. An 

 udder with four* niammse. 



Gregarious. Inhabits the open plains of the interior in vast 

 herds. 



21. Strepsiceros Koodoo. The Koodoo. Eechlongolc of the 

 Matahili. 



Adult male upwards of five feet high at the shoulder ; above nine 

 feet in extreme length. Horns bulky and compressed, having an 

 anterior ridge, which forms with them two complete spiral circles : 

 the tips turned outwards and forwards ; length about three feet ; 

 colour brown ; the tips black with a white point. Chafiron straight. 

 IVIuzzle very broad. Ears oblique, very broad, and pointed at the 

 tips, of a light brown colour. Neck thick. Withers elevated. 

 Dewlap anteriorly square. Forehead black. A white line passing 

 over the orbits unites on the chafFron. Three Avhite spots on either 

 cheek below the eye. Chin white bearded. A long fringe of varie- 

 gated black and white hair on the dewlap, and a standing mane on 

 the neck and withers. General colour of the hair a buff-grey or 

 sky-blue, marked with a Avhite line along the spine, and intersected 

 by five or six transverse lines running downwards to the belly, and 

 four more over the croup. Buttocks white. Legs rufous, below 

 the knees. Tail two feet long, rufous, edged with white, tapering 

 to a point, and black at the tip. No suborbital sinus. An entire 

 moist muzzle. 



