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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
The measurements in the flesh of an adult female were: 
head and body, 59 inches; tail, 14 inches; hind foot, i8>^ 
inches; ear, 8 inches. Length of skull, 12 inches. Fully 
grown horns usually measure 30 inches on the curve. The 
record length recorded by Ward for British East Africa is 33 
inches. This specimen was shot by A. H. Neumann, the ele¬ 
phant hunter. Ward records a considerable number from 
Somaliland exceeding Neumann’s head by an inch or two, 
the average horn length in Somaliland being about equal to 
the record of British East Africa. 
Greater Koodoo 
Strepsiceros 
Strepsiceros Hamilton Smith, 1827, Griffith’s Anim. Kingd., V, p. 365; type 
species S', strepsiceros. 
The koodoo is best characterized by its immense spiral 
horns and long throat mane, both of which are found in the 
male sex only. The horns are a wide, open spiral in shape 
which make two or three complete turns. In section the 
horns are circular, with a rounded keel, not flattened or fur¬ 
nished with a sharp keel as in the bushbuck. They more 
closely resemble the open spiral horns of the nyala, which 
is also a bearded or throat-maned antelope with transverse 
white body stripes. The lesser koodoo has horns very similar 
in shape, and on this account has been associated generically 
with the greater koodoo, but it differs by having the spiral 
much closer and lacking the throat mane. The female 
koodoo is hornless and without the throat mane, but in 
coloration is identical with the male. The tail is bushy 
throughout, the hair at the tip slightly longer than at the 
base and rather short in length, being intermediate in length 
between that of a bushbuck and an eland. The greater 
koodoo ranges from the Cape Colony northward to Angola on 
the West Coast, and on the east through the Zambesi Valley 
to Abyssinia. It is absent from the Congo basin and the re¬ 
gion north and west to the Sahara. Owing to the bushy char¬ 
acter of its haunts and its extreme alertness and shyness, the 
koodoo has persisted throughout most of its original range, 
even in Cape Colony. It is very local, the areas which it 
inhabits being widely scattered. A single living species is 
