BUSHBUCKS, KOODOOS, AND ELANDS 449 
known. Two fossil species are described, one from the 
Pliocene of India and a more recent Pleistocene species 
from Algeria. 
East African Greater Koodoo 
Strepsiceros strepsiceros bea 
Native Names: Swahili, marua; Masai, olmaalo. 
Strepsiceros strepsiceros bea Heller, 1913; Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13, 
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Range. —Rift Valley and coast desert drainage in Ger¬ 
man and British East Africa. Confined to isolated localities 
which are widely separated. 
The greater koodoo was first reported from British East 
Africa by Count Teleki, who obtained two in 1887, east of 
Lake Baringo, in the same district where Kermit Roosevelt 
obtained his specimens. Jackson early reported them from 
the coast district near the Taita Hills, and A. H. Neumann 
found a few in the hills near the south end of Lake Rudolf 
in 1895. Recently a few have been seen on the German 
border near the Southern Guaso Nyiro River. The present 
race was described from specimens shot by Kermit Roosevelt, 
at Donyo Gelasha, near Lake Baringo. 
Kermit was the only member of our party who came across 
the koodoo, the most beautiful of African antelopes. He 
found them east of Lake Baringo, in rough, dry, volcanic 
country. They were always found on rocky hills, covered 
with a jungle of thorn scrub and tree euphorbias. Usually 
they rested during the hot midday hours, but once Kermit 
came on two which were drinking in a stream exactly at 
noon. They were wary. The stomachs of the two which 
Kermit shot, a bull and a cow, were filled with grass; the 
beasts were grazing at the time. 
The East African race is similar to the Abyssinian race 
chora in the reduced number of body stripes, but decidedly 
darker in color on the median dorsal region, ear tips, and the 
