AESSEJi KUDU 



303 



\\cm\ uf Lesser Kiulu, from a .s|icciinen shol by Mr. Norman B. Smilh. 



LESSER KUDU (Strepsiceros imberbis). 



Godir of the Somalis. Sara of the Abyssiniaiis of Danakil. 



Kniigii of the Swahilis. 



An old male shot by Viscount Edmond de Poncins, i 8th No\'. 1S97, 

 Digago, Somaliland, measured as follows ; — 



Except for its brighter colour, the closer spiral and smaller diver- 

 gence of the horns, and the absence of a fringe of long hair on the 

 throat (whence the name imberbis), this beautiful little antelope might 

 almost pass for a miniature of its larger relation. Height at shoulder 

 about 3 feet S inches. 



