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specifically quite distinct from its better-known relative. Although it is 
probable that Blyth was wrong in some of the identifications of previous 
writers which he assigned to the present species, he was undoubtedly correct 
in his general views on the subject, and had the merit of assigning to the 
new Strepsiceros the appropriate name imberbis, which at once distinguishes 
it from its neck-maned ally. 
It is singular that while the Greater Kudu, as we have just shown, has 
such a widely-extended range in Africa, the Lesser Kudu is restricted to 
a comparatively very small area, extending only, so far as is certainly 
known, from Somaliland in the north to the coast-region of British Central 
Africa in the south. 
After Blyth the Smaller Kudu appears to have next attracted the attention 
of Sir John Kirk. Writing to Sclater from Zanzibar, where he was British 
Consul, in 1873, Sir John stated that he had obtained from the Brava coast 
a living female Kudu which appeared to belong to a smaller species than the 
ordinary form (cf. P. Z. 8. 1873, p. 195). Two years later, in June 1875, 
the late Sir Victor Brooke exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological Society 
of London original drawings by Wolf of the two Kudus, and pointed out the 
distinctions between them (see P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 470). These drawings are, 
as we have every reason to believe, the originals from which the figures 
(Plates XCVI. and XCVII. of the present work) were prepared by Smit. 
In 1878 Sir John Kirk obtained from the Sultan of Zanzibar another 
specimen of what he called the “ Dwarf Kudu” from the southern part of 
the Somali country, and sent it off to the Zoological Society (see P. Z. S. 
1878, p. 441). Unfortunately, however, the animal died on its way home. 
It was not, therefore, until 1884 that good specimens of the Lesser Kudu 
were received in Europe, and a proper comparison could be made between it 
and the larger and better-known species. ‘This was done by Sclater, and the 
results were stated In a communication made to the Zoological Society on 
February 5th of that year. Sclater’s materials were mainly a pair of animals 
which he had seen alive in the previous October in the menagerie of his 
friend the late Mons. J. M. Cornély, of Chateau Beaujardin, Tours. The 
young male of this pair, having died, was kindly sent to London by 
M. Cornély and formed the subject of a plate, drawn by Smit, which accom- 
panies Sclater’s article on this animal in the Zoological Society's ‘ Proceedings.’ 
On the occasion of reading his paper, Sclater was likewise able to exhibit an 
adult head of the Lesser Kudu which had been sent home by Sir John Kirk, 
