TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND 243 
guda tree, hunting first to see no snake shared my seat 
with me. I kept utterly silent for an hour or more, 
when my patience was rewarded. Through the 
bushes I saw a white chin bobbing up and down as it 
chose out the most succulent thorns. Lower it went 
I hardly breathed. To see a lesser koodoo in his 
haunts one sometimes has to wait for months. Here 
was I, in the limits of a morning’s patrol, so lucky. 
The | great broad ear flickered in and out. Because 
this antelope mostly lives in thick cover where quick 
hearing is his only safety, his ear has grown in ac- 
cordance with necessities. Somali hunters never 
seem to differentiate between the koodoo and the 
lesser koodoo. They are both one and the same to 
them, and are called u Godir ” indiscriminately. 
And yet the two animals are so different it seems 
absurd to think of confusion. 
The koodoo (strepsiceros koodoo) is the biggest 
antelope in Somaliland, heavy, magnificent and war- 
like. It inhabits mountainous parts, and the reason 
would seem to be plain. Space for such great horns 
is required, and though on occasion they frequent 
jungly parts of the Golis, their nature and habit is to 
live in the stony gorges, and stalking one is not unlike 
stalking one of our own Scotch deer. The lesser 
koodoo ( strepsiceros imberbis) is the personification 
of all the graces. What the koodoo gains in majesty 
the lesser has in exquisite symmetry of line and 
contour. The lesser koodoo never grows much larger 
than a small donkey, the horns are replicas in little 
of the average three footer of the koodoo, and there is 
