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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



GREATER KUDU (Strepsiceros kudu). 



Eebala-bala of the Amandebele. 

 Ee-zilarwa of the Makalakas. 

 Dwar of the Masaras. 

 Godir of the Somalis. 

 Itolo of the Basutos. 

 Itshongonons of the Swazis. 

 Muzeeloua of the Batongas. 



Ngoma in the Chilala and Chibisa 



countries. 

 Noro of the Mashonas. 

 Tolo of the Bechuanas. 

 Tola in the Barotse and Lake 



Ngami countries. 

 Unza of the Mazubias. 



Unzwa of the Makubas. 

 A male shot by Dr. Percy Rendall, in Nyasaland, measured : 



Although rather less brilliantly coloured than some of the harnessed 

 antelopes, the kudus are among the handsomest of all antelopes, their 

 spiral horns, striped coat, and noble carriage rendering them really 

 magnificent creatures. Their chief difference from the bushbucks is to 

 be found in the fuller spiral formed by the horns ; both sexes being 

 nearly similar in colour. The special characteristics of the greater or 

 true kudu are the large size (height at shoulder reaching to 4 feet 10 

 inches or 5 feet), the presence of a thick fringe of long hair on the throat, 

 and the open spiral of the horns of the bull. The colour is too well 

 known to require description. 



Distribution. — The kudu, in suitable localities, ranges over the greater 

 part of Africa south of the Sahara, extending from Abyssinia and 

 Somaliland through East and Central Africa to the Cape, and west- 

 ward across the continent to Angola, where the Congo apparently 

 forms its northern limits. In spite of its bulk, it is an adept at 

 concealment ; and this trait, coupled with its general wariness and 

 acute sense of smell and hearing, has largely contributed to its sur- 

 vival in districts where it is much hunted. Except in the Uitenhage 

 jungles, where it is preserved by English farmers, the kudu has, 

 however, been exterminated from Cape Colony. In Eastern 

 Mashonaland it is still abundant, as it is in the highlands of Somali- 

 land, in which country it is rarely met with on the plains. 



