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THE KOODOO. 
Strepsiceros koodoo . — Smith. 
PLATE XX. 
Antelope strepsiceros of Authors — Striped Antelope, Pen- 
nant's Quad. i. p. 77.— The Koodoo, Daniel.— Damalis 
(Strepsiceros), Smith in Griffith's Cuvier., iv. 357. 
This is a large and very beautiful animal, com- 
bining many of tbe characters of the Sheep, Oxen, 
and Antelopes. The male is nearly four feet high, 
and about eight feet long, exclusive of the tail. The 
general colour is a sort of buft-grey, with a line of 
white passing down the spine, crossed by four or five 
others from behind the shoulders, and from two to 
four across the croup. The forehead is black, and 
a white line passes over the orbits ; a ridge of black 
hair runs along the crest of the neck, and a similar 
one, longer and coarser, hangs from the dewlap. The 
horns rise from the crest of the skull, and rise per- 
pendicularly up in lai-ge spiral whorls. Mr Pennant 
mentions them as three feet nine inches in length. 
The Koodoo inhabits the woody parts of Cafirarla 
and the Karoo Mountains ; but like the other large spe- 
cies, begins to get scarce. They are fleeter than the 
