Part 34

The two known species of this genus may be recognized as follows:—

a. Height of adult male about four feet or over; horns with a bold and open spiral curvature and strongly diverging from the base; a mane of hairs running along throat in male; no white patches on the throat in either sex, and transverse body-stripes varying from four to ten. 130. S. capensis.

b. Height of adult male only a little over three feet; horns with much less open curve and but little diverging from base; no throat-mane in the male; two white throat-patches in both sexes, and transverse body-stripes almost always more than twelve 131. S. imberbis.

130. THE GREATER KUDU.

STREPSICEROS CAPENSIS (A. Smith).

Le Condoma, =Buffon=, Hist. Nat. xii. p. 301, pl. xxxix. fig. 1 (1764).

Le Condoma ou Coësdoës, =Allamand=, in Schneider’s ed. Buffon, Suppl. vol. iv. p. 143 (1781); =Buff.= Hist. Nat., Suppl. vi. p. 124, pl. xiii. (1782).

Antilope strepsiceros, =Pallas=, Misc. Zool. p. 9 (1766); id. Spic. Zool. i. p. 17 (1767), xii. pp. 19, 69 (1777); =Erxl.= Syst. R. A. p. 282 (1777); =Zimm.= Spec. Zool. Geogr. p. 542 (1777); id. Geogr. Ges. ii. p. 115 (1780); =Gatt.= Brev. Zool. pt. i. p. 81 (1780); =Schreb.= Säug. pl. cclxvii. (1784); =Bodd.= Elench. Anim. p. 142 (1785); =Gmel.= Linn. S. N. i. p. 192 (1788); =Penn.= Quadr. i. p. 77 (1781), p. 88, pl. xiv. (1793); =Kerr=, Linn. An. K. p. 319 (1792); =Donnd.= Zool. Beitr. i. p. 643 (1792); =Link=, Beytr. Nat. ii. p. 99 (1795); =G. Cuv.= Tabl. Elém. p. 164 (1798); =Shaw=, Gen. Zool. pt. 2, p. 334, fig. 185 (upper) (1801); =Turt.= Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 116 (1802); =Desm.= N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. vi. p. 129 (1803); =G. Cuv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. ii. p. 246 (1804); =Tiedemann=, Zool. i. p. 410 (1808); =Thunb. Mém.= Ac. St. Pétersb. iii. p. 317 (1811); =G. Fisch.= Zoogn. iii. p. 439 (1814); =Afz.= N. Acta Upsal. vii. p. 220 (1815); =G. Cuv.= R. A. i. p. 263 (1817); =Burchell=, List Quadr. p. 7 (1817); =Goldf.= Schreb. Säug. v. p. 1207 (1818); =Schinz=, Cuv. Thierr. i. p. 396 (1821); =Burchell=, Travels, i. pp. 337, 374 (1822); =Desmoul.= Dict. Class. d’H. N. i. p. 447 (1822); =G. B. Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 471 (1829); =Rüpp.= Neue Wirbelth. Abyss. p. 26 (1835–40); =Masson=, Cuv. R. A. i. p. 317 (1836); =Waterh.= Cat. Mus. Z. S. (2) p. 42 (1838); =Forst.= (J. R.) Descr. Anim. pp. 36, 377 (1844); =Schinz=, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 430 (1845); id. Mon. Antil. p. 28, pl. xxxi. (1848); =Drummond=, Large Game, p. 425 (1875).

Antilope (Gazella) strepsiceros, =Licht.= Mag. nat. Freund, vi. p. 172 (1814).

Capra strepsiceros, =Thunb.= Resa, ii. p. 100 (1789); Engl. Tr. ii. p. 89 (1793).

Ovis strepsiceros, =Müller=, Linn. Natursyst. i. p. 429, pl. xxvi. figs. 1 & 2 (1773).

Cerophorus (Tragelaphus) strepsiceros, =Blainv.= Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75.

Antilope (Tragelaphus) strepsiceros, =Desm.= Dict. d’H. N. (2) ii. p. 197 (1816); id. Mamm. ii. p. 468 (1822); =Less.= Man. Mamm. p. 383 (1827); =Gerv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. Suppl. i. p. 266 (1840); =Less.= N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 181 (1842); =Wagn.= Schreb. Säug., Suppl. iv. p. 445 (1844), v. p. 440 (1855); =Gieb.= Säug. p. 311 (1853).

Tragelaphus strepsiceros, =Heugl.= Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 319 (1869); id. Säug. Reise Nordost-Afr. p. 113, fig. (1877).

Antilope (Addax) strepsiceros, =Laurill.= Dict. Univ. d’H. N. i. p. 620 (1861).

Damalis strepsiceros, =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. iv. p. 359 (1827).

Damalis (Strepsiceros) strepsiceros, =H. Sm.= op. cit. v. p. 365 (1827).

Calliope strepsiceros, =Ogilby=, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 138; =Rüpp.= Senck. Mus. iii. pt. 2, p. 181 (1839).

Strepsiceros strepsiceros, =Smuts=, En. Mamm. Cap. p. 92 (1832); =Peters=, Reise Mossam. p. 190 (1852); =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 140 (1887); id. Notes Leyd. Mus. ix. p. 173 (1887) (Mossamedes); id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 172 (1892); =Rendall & Rothschild=, Novitat. Zool. v. p. 212 (1898); =Matschie=, in Werther’s Die mittl. Hochl. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 254, fig. 27 (1898); =De Winton=, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 768.

Antilope strepsiceros, =Less.= Compl. Buff. x. p. 303 (1836); =Reichenb.= Säug. iii. p. 145 (1845).

Strepsiceros strepsiceros zambesiensis, =Lorenz=, Ann. Mus. Wien, ix., Notizen, p. 62 (1894).

Strepsiceros capensis, =A. Sm. S. Afr.= Quart. J. ii. p. 223 (1834); =Harris=, Wild Anim. S. Afr. pp. 103–107, pl. xx. (1840).

Strepsiceros kudu, =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 155 (1843); id. Cat. Ost. B. M. p. 59 (1847); id. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 143; id. Knowsley Menag. p. 26, pl. xxiv. fig. 2 (1850); =Jard.= Nat. Libr. xxii., Mamm. p. 180, pl. xx. (1850) (Koodoo); =Gray=, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) viii. p. 225 (1851); id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 133, pl. xvii. figs. 1, 2 (1852); =Gerv.= Hist. Nat. Mamm. ii. p. 200 (1855) (Coudou); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 245 (1862); =Wood=, Ill. Nat. Hist. i. p. 663, fig. (1862); =Sclater=, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 105; =Kirk=, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 659; =Fitz.= SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 176 (1869); =Blanf.= Zool. Abyss, p. 270 (1870); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 46 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 117 (1873); =Buckley=, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 454, 1876, pp. 284, 291; =Garrod=, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 4 (anatomy); =Bocage=, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 745 (Angola); =Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 227, fig. (1880); =Selous=, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 751; id. Hunter’s Wand. p. 207 (1881); =Scl.= List An. Z. S. p. 136 (1883), p. 160, fig. 23 (1896); id. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 47, fig. 2 (horns) (nec fig. 1); =Johnston=, River Congo, pp. 386, 391 (1884); id. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 542; =Flow. & Gars.= Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. p. 258 (1884); =Lort Phillips=, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 931; =Hunter=, in Willoughby’s E. Africa, p. 287 (1889); =Bryden=, Kloof and Karroo, pp. 291, 292 (1889); =Crawshay=, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 659; =Jent.= Mus. Pays-Bas, xii. p. 211 (1890); =Scl.= fil. Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. p. 153 (1891); =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 348 (1891); =Inverarity=, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. no. 4, p. 463, pl. (1891); =Nicolls & Eglin.= Sportsm. in S. Afr. p. 52 (1892); =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 159 (1892), p. 203 (1896); =Lugard=, Rise of E. Afr. Emp. i. p. 531 (1893); =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 102, 118; =Swayne=, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 301; =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 256 (1893); =id.= Royal Nat. Hist. ii. p. 273, pl. (1894); =Jackson=, Big Game Shooting (Badm. Libr.), pp. 288, 304 (1894); =Thos.= P. Z. S. 1894, p. 145; =Matschie=, Säug. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 136 (1895); =Swayne=, Somaliland, p. 302, fig. facing p. 144 (1895); =Thos.= P. Z. S. 1896, p. 798; =Elliot=, Publ. Mus. Chicago, Zool. i. p. 132; =Bryden=, Nat. & Sportsm. in S. Afr. pp. 241–250 (1897); =Pousarg.= Ann. Sci. Nat. iv. p. 81 (1897); =Jackson=, P. Z. S. 1897, p. 454; =Ghika=, Pays des Somalis, p. 181 (1898); =Trouess.= Cat. Mamm. ii. pt. 4, p. 960 (1898); =Lydekker, Selous, Buckley, & Inverarity=, in Ward’s Great and Small Game of Africa, pp. 440–451, pl. xiii. fig. 1 (1899).

Damalis (Strepsiceros) capensis, =A. Sm.= Illust. Zool. S. Afr. pls. xlii., xliii. (1859).

Antilope tendal, =Cretzschm.= Atl. Rüpp. Reise, Säug. p. 22 (1826); =J. B. Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 475 (1829).

Antilope chora, =J. B. Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 475 (1829).

Strepsiceros kudu abyssinicus, =Fitz.= SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 176 (1869).

Strepsiceros excelsus, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. lxv. p. 196 (1846); =id.= Hornsch. Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 147; Reprint, p. 71 (1848).