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THE STREPSICERES. 
This family, defined in the preceding pages, are peculiar as being the only hollow-horned or Bovine 
Ruminants which are marked with white stripes and spots. The bands are not very distinct in the Lnpoofo 
or Eland, but they are easily to be observed in the female, if it is looked at obliquely, which was brought 
home by Burke, and presented to the British Museum by the Earl of Derby. Their nostrils are near 
together in front. They have four teats in a small udder. The horns generally incline backwards from 
their base ; the skull, which somewhat resembles that of the Deer, has a rather small nasal opening, no 
suborbital pit, and only a small suborbital fissure. 
Colonel H. Smith forms of the larger species three of his four subgenera of Damalis : he places the 
smaller kinds as a subgenus {Tragelaphus) of Antelopes. 
Professor Sundevall placed the genera I have here brought together in two different families ; the 
genus Portax with the Bonina, and the others in the Sykicaprina, or True Antelopes. 
The African genera have large heavy horns, only the rudiments of a tear-bag, and their limbs are 
nearly equal ; they have no supplementary lobes to the grinders, and the central cutting-teeth are enlarged 
above. 
* The nose hairy, cervine, with only a small moist naked space between the edges of the nostrils, and a narroiv streak on 
the upper lip ; the body is large, heavy ; the neck is maned. 
1. STREPSICEROS {H. SmitK), Calliope {Ogilby), Tragelaphus, sp. {Blainv.), 
with large, heavy, spirally twisted horns, keeled in front ; tear-bag a naked space ; throat with a central, 
linear mane : female hornless. 
The Eechlongole or Koodoo. Strepsiceros Kudu. Tab. XXIV. fig. 2. Young. 
The horns diverge from the line of the forehead, and have two twists ; the calf is marked like the 
adult. 
Antilope Strepsiceros, Pallas. — Damalis {Strepsiceros) Strepsiceros, H. Smith, G. A. K. — A. Tendal, Ruppell, 
Abyss. 22.— Fischer, Syn. 475.— Strepsiceros Kudu, Gray, Cat. B. M.—S. Capensis, Harris, W. A. A. t. 20. 
— S. ewcelsus, SundeY.— Striped Antelope, Penn. — Comdoma, BufFon, H. N. xii. t. 39 ; Supp. vi. t. 13. 
Inhabits S. Africa ; Abyssinia. 
In the Frankfort Museum there is a male and female adult, a half-grown and young specimens ; in the 
India House Museum is another specimen, all from Abyssinia. They do not appear to differ from the 
Cape specimens, except in being smaller. 
2. OREAS {Desm.), Boselaphus, sp. {Blaim., Gray), Damalis (Boselaphus), sp. {II. Smith), 
Damalis {Sundev.), 
with large, erect, slightly curved horns, with a spiral keel; throat with a longitudinal, crested dewlap; 
hoofs narrowed in front. Female with smaller, thinner horns. 
I formerly adopted the name of Boselaphus, which Blainville had used for the genus, but Ray had pre- 
viously applied this name to the Buhale, and Desmarest has formed a subgenus specially for it under the 
name of Oreas. 
