PLATE OR: 
STREPSICEROS CAPENSIS.—THE KOODOO. 
Koodoo of the Cape Colonists. Eechlongole of the Matabili. 
Generic CHaracter.— Adult male upwards of five feet high at the shoulder, and above nine in extreme length. 
Horns bulky and compressed, having a prominent anterior ridge or wreath, which forms, with them, two complete spiral circles 
diverging from each other in their ascent; the points turned outwards and forwards. Length from three to four feet, colour 
pale brown, the tips black, with a white point; base marked’ for some distance upwards with slight wrinkles, but not annu- 
lated; their bony nucleus of the consistency of ivory. Chaffron straight. Muzzle very broad and square. ars oblique and 
slouching as in the ox; of a light brown colour outside, whitish within; very large and broad, but pointed at the tips. Frame 
very muscular and powerful. Neck thick. Withers elevated into a false hump. Dewlap anteriorly square. Legs robust. 
Pasterns rigid, and hoofs compact. Face brown, Wend almost’ black on the forehead; a white line passing from the base 
of the horns over the orbits, unites on the chaffron in the form of a crescent; three white spots on either cheek below the 
eye. Chin white bearded. A long loose fringe of hair variegated black, white, and dun, depending from the dewlap, and a 
coarse standing brown mane extending loosely from the crown of the head almost to the tail. General colour of the coat, a silvery 
buff grey, or sky blue, marked with a white line along the spine beneath the mane, and intersected by five or six transverse 
white ribbons running “downwards from it to the belly, and four more over the croup. Buttocks, posterior portion of the 
abdomen, and part ‘of the inside of thighs,, white. Legs rufous dun below the knees and hocks. A black and a white spot 
on the posterior side of each fore-arm. Tail rufous, two feet long, edged with white, tapering to a point, and tipped with 
sable. No suborbital sinus. An entire moist muzzle. 
Female slighter, hornless, and with fewer and fainter white ribbons. Has an udder with four mamme. Gregarious in 
small families, and still found within the colony, though rare. Inhabits thickets and wooded uplands, as well as the banks 
of rivers, but is never to be found in the open plain. 
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