70 THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 



Damalis (Strepsiceros) strepsiceros, H. Smith, op. cit. vol. v. p. 365, 1827. 

 Strepsiceros strepsiceros, Smuts, Enmn. Mamm. Cap. p. 92, 1832. 

 Strepsiceros strepsiceros strepsiceros, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, vol. i. 

 pp. 140, 141. 



Size very large, height at shoulder 50 to 52 inches. Differs 

 from the Lesser Kudu in having a well-developed fringe on throat 

 and chest, and much larger horns, in good specimens from 55 to 

 64 inches along curve. General colour of body greyish brown, 

 sometimes bluish grey or tinted with rufous ; nine or ten transverse 

 white stripes on side of body. In the East African and Sudan 

 races the body stripes are less numerous. 



The Collection contains a very fine series of this handsome 

 Antilope. No. 19. 7. 15. 417 has the best horns : length on 

 curve 60| ; in straight line from point to base 45| ; circumference 

 11| ; spread from tip to tip 33. Another good head is 

 No. 19. 7. 15. 420, which has the following horn measurements : 

 length on curve 63f ; in straight line from point to base 41 ; 

 circumference 10 ; spread from tip to tip 23. The spread of the 

 horns is very variable ; the maximum tip to tip interval in this 

 series occurs in No. 19. 7. 15. 426, being as much as 43 inches. 

 The minimum spread from tip to tip is 16 inches (No. 19. 7. 15.428). 

 The female head (No. 19. 7. 15. 419) is a very exceptional specimen 

 as it possesses well-developed horns, one of which measures as 

 much as 30 inches from point to base. Selous* writing in his 

 diary of this specimen makes the following statement : " 1 rode 

 on to the carcase of this Koodoo cow just after it had been killed 

 by wild dogs, which I drove off, when near Bamangwato in 

 Khama's country in March, 1888. Altogether I have seen many 

 hundreds of female Koodoos, but this is the only one I ever saw 

 with horns." 



Typical locality, Cape Colony ; range extends northwards across 

 Zambesi into Northern Rhodesia. Writing in 1881 f on the 

 distribution of the Kudu in South Africa, Selous makes the 

 following remarks : " A few Koodoos still linger in the Cape 

 Colony, and in parts of Griqualand West they are not uncommon. 



* Cat. Exhibits Brit. Section International Shooting and Field Sports 

 Exhibit. Vienna, 1910, p. 17, 1911. 

 f Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 751. 



