Koodoo — Lesser Koodoo 45 



unlikely if the animal keeps to the same side of the ravine you are on, as it 



is impossible to see him. Should, however, he be on the other side of the 



ravine, or bolt up the opposite hill-face, he is by no means difficult shooting. 



At dawn, or soon after, and in the evening, koodoo may be met with on 



the more open flat tracts on the hills, but after the sun is well up the place 



to look for them is the ravines. Dr. Livingstone mentions the koodoo as 



one of the antelopes that can exist without water. Judging from the 



paucity of their tracks at the water-holes in the hills, I formed the opinion 



that the Somali koodoo, though they appeared to drink regularly, do not 



require to drink every day. The young are, I think, born about November. 



I had a young male a few days old that was caught in that month. When 



alarmed, the koodoo barks loudly. The sound is similar to the bark of 



the sambar. The meat is good, and the Somalis prefer it to that of any 



other antelope. The largest Somali koodoo head mentioned in Rowland 



Ward's Records of Big Game measures 39-^ inches in a straight line, and 



C7 inches over the curve. , ,-. T 



■>' J. D. Inverarity. 



The Lesser Koodoo (Strepsiceros imberbis) 

 Anderio, sometimes Godir, of Somalis ; Sara of Abyssinians ; Kungu 



OF SwAHILIS 



The lesser koodoo is a remarkably handsome animal, being of a blue-gray 

 colour, with numerous white stripes running down its sides from shoulder 

 to tail ; one shot by me had fourteen stripes on either side, from 2 to 4 

 inches apart. Like the greater koodoo, it has a standing mane of white hair 

 along the neck and back, longest on the neck and shoulders. It has a white 

 patch on the lower part of its neck, a white line from the corner of each 

 eye, meeting on the face, and white spots on the cheeks. Unlike the greater 

 koodoo, it has no fringe of hair on the .throat. It has no sub-orbital gland. 



