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).
?? Antilope torticornis, Herm. Obs. Zool. i. p. 87[12].
Cerf du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, Colini, Acta Acad. Theod. Palat. pp. 487–491, pl. (1766).
Striped Antelope, Penn. Syn. Quadr. pp. 31, 224 (1771); id. Hist. of Quadr. (1) i, p. 76, (3) i. p. 88, pl. xiv.
Koedoe, Sparrm. Reise, p. 511 (1784); Engl. Tr. ii. p. 213 (1786); French Tr. p. 237 (1787).
Le Condoma, Huet, Coll. Mamm. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. p. 47, pl. xli. fig. 1 (1808).
The Koodoo, Daniell, Afr. Scenery, no. 6 (1812); Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, p. 376 (1863); Johnston, Kilima-Njaro Exped. pp. 301, 354 (and of most English sportsmen and naturalists).
Vernacular Names:—Koedoe of the Dutch, and Kudu or Koodoo of the English Colonists at the Cape; Tolo of Bechuana; Ee-bala-bala of Amandables; Ee-zilarwa of Makalakas; Noro of Mashunas; Unza of Masubias; Unzwa of Makubas; Muzeelona of Batongas; Dwar of Masuras (Selous). Unganxa of Kaffirs (Drummond). Mivimveh, Njellet, Neled, and Jelled of the Arabs of the Upper Nile; Garna or Qarna and Nellet at Massaua; Ungŭtir of Hamran Arabs; Agasehn, A’gasen, and Agasen in Amharic (Heuglin). Goder and Gouriali in Somaliland (Swayne).
Adult male. Height at withers about 50–52 inches. General colour of body varying from reddish to pale slaty bluish grey, the latter especially prevalent in older animals, and perhaps due, in part, to the scantiness of the hair revealing the tint of the skin. Neck brown on each side at its base and darker than the shoulders, becoming paler towards its anterior extremity. Head darker fawn than the anterior end of the neck, whitish around the eye, a white bar running inwards from the corner of each eye and forming an incomplete
