BOVIDA 347 
The Harnessed Antelopes are among the handsomest of the 
whole group. The small Guib (Tf. scriptus) is not larger than a 
Goat, but 7. angusi is 3 feet 4 inches in height at the shoulder. In 
T. scriptus, T. angasi, and T. euryceros, the two sexes differ in colour, 
the body is marked by white stripes descending from a white dorsal 
streak, and the hoofs are short ; the third species differing from the 
others by the absence of a mane on the neck, back, and belly. 
7. gratus agrees with this group in coloration (the mane being 
Fic. 143.—The Kudu (Strepsiceros kudu). From Sclater, List of Animals in Zoological Society's 
Gardens, 1883, p. 136. 
absent), but differs in the extreme elongation of its hoofs. The 
Nakong, 7. spekei, while having the long hoofs of J. gratus, has a 
perfectly plain body coloration, with a mane on the neck. The two 
species with elongated hoofs inhabit swampy districts, for which 
this peculiar structure is admirably adapted ; and the Nakong, when 
frightened, will rush into the water and leave only its nostrils and 
the tips of the horns above the surface. The small Bushbuck 
(ZL. sylvaticus) of South Africa has no stripes, and short hoofs. 
Strepsiceros.'—Females hornless. Horns (Fig. 143) more twisted 
than in Yragelaphus, forming an open spiral, with the anterior ridge 
1 Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 155 (1843). 
