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and a pair of horns of a rather younger male of the same animal, belonging 
to Mons. Cornély, which had been received by him through Mr. Hagenbeck, 
of Hamburg, from Somaliland, along with the living pair of animals just 
mentioned. 
By the kind favour of the Zoological Society we are enabled to reproduce 
here (fig. 115, p. 188) the comparative illustration of the horns of two 
species of Kudu which accompanies Sclater’s paper on this subject in the 
Society’s ‘ Proceedings.’ 
Mr. E. Lort Phillips, F.Z.S., appears to have been one of the first English 
sportsmen who personally met with the Lesser Kudu in Somaliland and 
realized its difference from the Greater Kudu. This was in the winter 
of 1884-85, when Mr. Lort Phillips visited that country along with Messrs. 
James, Aylmer, and Thrupp. In his notes on the Antelopes obtained during 
this journey (see P. Z. S. 1885, p. 931), Mr. Lort Phillips informs us that 
the Lesser Kudu was met with on the northern slopes of the high plateau of 
Northern Somaliland, where it resorts to thick covert, and that it was not 
usually found far from water. Since that date most, if not all, of the 
numerous British shooting-parties in Somaliland have succeeded in obtaining 
heads of this beautiful species. 
Capt. Swayne, our leading authority on the Antelopes of Somaliland, writes 
of the Lesser Kudu as follows :— 
“This is, to my mind, quite the most beautiful of all the Somali Antelopes, and the 
skin is more brilliantly marked and the body more gracefully shaped than that of the 
Greater Koodoo. 
“The Lesser Koodoo is found in thick jungles of the larger kind of thorn-tree, 
especially where there is an undergrowth of the hig or slender-pointed aloe, which is of 
a light green colour and grows from four to six feet high. This Antelope may also be 
found hiding in dense thickets of tamarisk in the river-beds. It is not met with in the 
open grass plains, and I have never seen one in the cedar-forests on the top of the Gdlis. 
Its favourite haunts used to be along the foot of this range, and I do not think its 
numbers have been much diminished of late years. By far the best Lesser-Koodoo 
ground I have ever visited is the thick forest on the banks of the Webbe, near Imé and 
Karanleh. These Webbe specimens are different from those found under Golis, as they 
are smaller, have shorter horns, are still more brilliantly marked, and have hoofs nearly 
twice as long. The hoofs of a Webbe Lesser Koodoo are, like those of a Webbe Bush- 
buck, of extraordinary length. 
“The Lesser Koodoo likes to be near water, and, living as it does amongst the densest 
thickets, has its ears wonderfully well developed. It has powerful hind-quarters, and is 
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