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Paul Matschie. 



die später von H. Smith üi E. Griffith, Cuvier, The Animal 

 Kingdom, 1827, IV, 359 bis 360, unter dem Namen Damalis 

 Strepsiceros beschrieben und dann L c. V. 365 als besondere Unter- 

 gattung Strepsiceros Strepsiceros aufgefaßt worden ist. 



Aus H. Smith's Angaben sei folgendes hervorgehoben: „On the 

 forehead the colour of the hair is black; a white line passing over 

 the orbits, unites and forms a kind of crescent on the chaffron; 

 the chin likewise is white, and furnished with a kind of beard, 

 which, as in the Aigoceri, soon drops out: but from the throat to 

 the end of the dewlap depends a long and loose fringe of coarse 

 black hair, and a similar ridge forms a mane on the neck and 

 Stands up over the withers to the middle of the back. Beneath 

 this mane a line of white hair passes down the spine to the tail, 

 traversed by four or five others from behind the Shoulders to the 

 hips, and two, three or four more across the croup, forming in all 

 eight or nine cross streaks, which terminate at the belly, or on the 

 thigh; the edge of the buttocks is white down to the houghs, and 

 long hairs of the same colour fill the anterior part of the ears; 

 the chaffron, sides of the head, back of the ears, Shoulders, body 

 and croup, are of a buff-gray, usually appearing darker in stuffed 

 specimens; the inside of the ears, behind the white piles, throat, 

 dewlap, belly and legs rufous-buff; the tail, which does not reach 

 to the houghs, is white above, edged with grayish-dun, and 

 terminated with long black hairs; the hoofs are short and firm. 

 ... The female . . . more faintly marked' with three or four cross 

 lines on the sides and one or none on the thighs." 



Als Heimat seines Kudu gibt er den östlichen Teil der Kap- 

 kolonie, Caffraria, die Ebenen der Karooberge und die Gegend um 

 die Quellen des Gariep hesum an. 



Dieselbe Form hat wohl W. C. Harris in den Portraits of 

 the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, 1840, Tai 20,. 

 vor sich gehabt. Er schreibt: 



„Face brown becoming almost black on the forehead; a white 

 line passing from the base of the horns over the orbits, unites on 

 the chaffron in the form of a crescent; three white spots on either 

 cheek below the eye. Chin white bearded. A long loose fringe 

 of hair variegated black, white, and dun, depending from the 

 dewlap, and a coarse Standing brown mane extending loosely from 

 the crown of the head almost to the tail. General colour of the 

 coat, a silvery buff gray, or sky blue, marked with a white line 

 along the spine beneath the mane, and intersected by five or six 

 transverse white ribbons running downwards from it to the belly, 



