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In the Gallery of the British Museum of Natural History at South 
Kensington there is to be seen a very fine and large mounted male specimen 
of the Greater Kudu, which was shot by Mr. F. C. Selous on the Macloutsi 
River, Upper Limpopo, in May 1890, and presented by that gentleman to the 
National Collection. This splendid animal stands 59 inches in height at the 
Fig. 114. 
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Male and female Kudu. 
(Garden Guide, 1879, p. 22.) 
withers and its horns are 43 inches long in a straight line. There are also 
other specimens of the Kudu (skins, skulls, or horns) in the British Museum 
from Bogos-land, Abyssinia, the Shiré Highlands of British Central Africa, 
and the Cape Colony. 
April, 1900. 
