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and the horn-spiral typically more open and forming at least 

 two-and-a-half complete turns. Sexes nearly alike in colora- 

 tion ; tail thickly haired, as in most species of Tragelaphus. 



The range includes eastern and southern Africa from 

 Abyssinia and Somaliland to Cape Colony, and thence along 

 the western side of the continent as far north as the Congo. 



The two existing species are distinguishable as follows : 



A. Size very large; horns with a very open spiral; 



throat tufted in male S. strepsiceros. 



B. Size relatively small ; horns with a closer spiral ; 



throat smooth ., S. imberbis. 



I. STEPSICEROS IMBEEBIS. 



Strepsiceros imberbis, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 55 ; Sclater, 

 ibid. 1878, p. 441, 1884, pp. 45 and 439, pi. iv, 1892, pp. 102 and 

 118 ; Phillips, ibid. 1885, p. 931 ; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 

 ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 76, 1887 ; Hunter, Willoughby's Great Game of 

 East Africa, p. 288, 1889 ; Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xii, 

 p. 211, 1890, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, vol. xi) 

 p. 172, 1892 ; Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 348, 

 1891 ; Inverarity, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. vi, 

 p. 465, pi. 1891, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 451, 

 1899; Ward, Eecords of Big Game, p. 163, 1892, ed. 6, 

 p. 323, 1910, ed. 7, p. 321, 1914 ; Swayne, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1892, p. 302; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 252, 1893, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 349, 1908 ; Jackson, Big Game 

 Shooting (Badminton Libr.), vol. i, p. 304, 1894, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1897, p. 454 ; Matschie, Sdugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrika, 

 p. 137, 1895, Werther's Die mittl. Hochldnd. Deutsch-Ost- 

 afrika, p. 255, 1898; Elliot, Zool. Pub. Field Mus. vol. i, 

 p. 134, 1897, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (op. cit. vol. viii) p. 88, 

 1907 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 81, 

 1897; de Winton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 768; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 185, pi. xcvii, 1900 ; 

 Rothschild, Powell-Cotton's Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, 

 p. 477, 1902; Powell-Cotton, Unknown Africa, p. 575, 1904; 

 Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, vol. i, p. 141 ; Drake-Brockman, 

 Mammals of Somali, p. 95, 1910. 



Strepsiceros tendal, Gray, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 118, 

 1873, nee Cretzschmar. 



Ammelaphus imberbis, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix, no. 8, 

 p. 15, 1912, vol. Ixi, no. 13, p. 2, 1913. 



LESSER KUDU. 



Type of Ammelaphus. 



Typical locality Somaliland. 



Size relatively small, shoulder-height about 40 inches ; 



