474 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



entire forehead covered by a heavy mat of long hair, with- 

 out any chevrons on the snout. Old bulls of both races 

 retain a few of the body stripes even in old age. The black 

 stripe on the chest and belly of patter sonianus is usually lack- 

 ing in livingstonii. Specimens of the South African eland 

 from the Kalahari Desert and Cape Colony, however, lack 

 the body stripes even in immaturity in males, as is well 

 shown by specimens in the National Museum. The skulls 

 from East Africa exceed in length those from the Zambesi, 

 but are less in breadth. We may describe pattersonianus as 

 a longer and more slender-headed race with darker-colored 

 mane and body. 



The body color of an old male is usually ochraceous-buff , 

 the hair often being so thin that the dark skin shows con- 

 spicuously and gives it a bluish-gray appearance. The body 

 is crossed by two or three faint white transverse stripes. The 

 nape of neck is covered by a broad mane of long wood- 

 brown hair extending half-way down the sides and ending 

 at the withers in a stripe which is continued on the back to 

 the rump. The tail is thin-haired and is buff above and 

 white below, with a tuft of long black hair at the tip. The 

 under-parts have a broad seal-brown stripe from the chest 

 to the middle of the belly. The belly and the sides of the 

 body are light buff. The forelegs are ochraceous-buff in front, 

 and white behind, with a broad black bar above and behind 

 the knee. The border of the hoofs and the back of the pas- 

 terns are seal-brown. The hind legs are like the fore in color 

 but lack the black band above the knee on the posterior side. 

 The forehead is covered by an immense bush of thick hair, 

 three inches in length and cinnamon-brown in color, bounded 

 behind and above the eye by a black stripe and in front on the 

 snout by buffy bases to the hair. The snout is seal-brown to 

 the lips. The upper lips and chin are whitish and the chin is 

 bordered behind by an indistinct drab bar. The sides of the 

 head and the orbital region are buffy-drab. The ears on the 

 back are buff, the tips seal-brown, and the inside and the base 

 whitish. The base of the throat has a dewlap or bell covered 

 by a short mane of ochraceous hair. Younger males lack the 

 bush on the head, which is usually represented by a median tuft 

 of long hair bounded in front by white chevrons ; the nape mane 

 is also greatly reduced in extent and confined to a narrow line 



