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the koodoo, or nellut of the Arabs (A. strep- 
siceros). This animal is most graceful, and is 
prettily marked. It stands from about 13 to 
13-Jr hands in height of withers. The colour is 
mouse-gray, with perfectly white stripes. The 
horns are very long and spiral. In this species 
we find a distinction in the female being devoid 
of horns. Their habits are different from the fore¬ 
going varieties, as they are seldom met with upon 
the open, but are found in deep ravines and 
thickly wooded nullahs. 
There are no elands in Abyssinia, neither have 
I ever seen them throughout my journeys in Central 
Africa, but I have seen a very large pair of 
horns that were brought by the slave - hunters 
from the West, somewhere upon the Bahr Gazal. 
The largest of all that I have met north of 
the equator is a species of roan antelope that 
was named Hippo tragus Bakerii , as a new 
specimen, differing from the well - known roan 
antelope of South Africa. This animal stands 
about 13 hands 3 inches at the withers, or 14 
hands; it is immensely bulky, and clumsy in 
comparison with the more elegant strepsiceros. 
The horns are thick, annulated, and are curved 
completely backwards, so that when the head is 
thrown up they would reach the shoulder. The 
mane upon the neck gives it a remote resem¬ 
blance to a horse, with horns. I have never 
weighed a roan antelope, but I should estimate 
the live weight at about 700 lbs. Both male and 
