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“‘a rare beast and only found in certain places.” There are always “a few,” 
he says, ‘‘in the Teita country west of Ndara and Kisigao, and on the banks of 
the Tsavo River, down which it ranges from the head-waters to the Sabaki, 
and then north up the Athi. All these districts are more or less undulating, 
very rough, dry and stony, and covered with thick bush.” Further north, Graf 
Teleki shot two Greater Kudus a few miles to the south of Lake Barengo, and 
Dr. Donaldson Smith, in the course of his travels, saw one at El Madu in 
about 4° N. lat. Mr. Arthur H. Neumann met with the Greater Koodoo 
near Lake Rudolf, as related in his ‘ Klephant-hunting,’ but considers it 
very uncommon in the districts which he traversed. Passing northwards to 
Somaliland, we find the Kudu more abundant on the higher grounds. 
Capt. Swayne informs us that it inhabits the top of Wagar Mountain and the 
Golis Range, which rise to about 6800 feet. 
Lieut.-Col. H. D. Olivier, R.E., F.Z.S., who has recently returned from a 
hunting excursion in Northern Somaliland, has favoured us with the following 
notes :-— 
“| first came across the Greater Koodoo in the Golis Range, and I also found it to 
the west of Hargeisa and near Milmil, as far south as lat. 8°. The first locality, however, 
was the only one where I pursued it, and it was there more abundant than in the two 
last-mentioned places. The Golis Range consists of a series of high bluffs under which 
lies a sort of undercliff forming a lower plateau. This is grown over with gigantic 
Euphorbias and dense brushwood, interspersed with huge boulders which have fallen 
from the cliffs above. The Koodoo apparently lie up in very thick patches of such jungle, 
at least I always found this the case, and the first intimation of their presence was 
invariably a crash as the quarry dashed off, generally out of. sight. Their habit, 
however, of stopping after a hundred yards or so, to examine the cause of their alarm, is 
often fatal to them. They seem to lie pretty close, and on one occasion I walked all 
round one without discovering it, which we did eventually by finding its tracks at the 
end of our circuit and following them up. The Koodoo browse on the young shoots, 
and I have also found them eating the smaller kinds of Euphorbias. 
“ At the time I was looking for them the rainy season was on, and I think this much 
assisted us, for it rendered tracking easy and our movements less noisy than they would 
have been in the dry weather. During five days’ shooting we saw five good bucks, and 
secured three of them. I found that when alarmed they did not travel very far, and that 
by patiently following the tracks we generally came up to them within a couple of miles. 
All the bucks I came across were solitary, and the hinds seemed to live in small herds 
of from three to seven or eight. A sportsman could not wish for a grander sight thana 
startled Koodoo dashing off along the hillside, or standing on the look-out on some point 
of vantage. Their flesh is poor eating, and their hides are of little value from an 
ornamental point of view, but the head and neck, and the ruff, when well mounted, form 
a splendid trophy.” 
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