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and the body color is more reddish. The body stripes are 

 more numerous and distinct and the dark stripe on the 

 belly and above the knee is more pronounced. Often the 

 snout is marked by conspicuous white chevrons extending 

 diagonally in front of the eyes. The adult female is like the 

 immature male in color, but usually brighter. The body 

 color is ochraceous-orange crossed by twelve white stripes 

 extending from the very distinct black dorsal stripe half-way 

 down on the sides. The under-parts and the belly are marked 

 as in the male. The nape mane is reduced to a narrow line 

 of wood-brown hair which merges on the withers into the 

 broad black dorsal stripe. The forehead is without a mat 

 of long hair or white chevron stripes, and the snout is 

 buffy-drab, not blackish as in the male. The throat has 

 a well-developed dewlap covered by long blackish and buffy 

 hairs. Newly born young have the color pattern of the adult 

 female minutely reproduced, and are furnished with a dew- 

 lap on the throat. The snout has a dark blotch as in the 

 male. 



Flesh measurements of the Zambesi eland are not avail- 

 able for comparison, but, judging by the size of the skulls, the 

 East African race is fully as large as the southern one. The 

 flesh measurements of a large bull shot by Colonel Roosevelt 

 on the Loita Plains were: head and body along curve of back, 

 io6 inches; tail, 32 inches; hind foot, 29 inches; ear, io>< 

 inches. An adult female measures 4 inches less in body, 

 I inch less in length of tail, i>^ inches less in hind foot, and 3^ 

 inch less in length of ear. The largest male in the National 

 Museum has a skull length of I9>^ inches. The average 

 skull in a series of twelve is 18 inches in length, and 8 inches 

 in greatest breadth. The female skulls average 17 inches 

 in length. The horns in the male are very much heavier 

 or greater in diameter than in the female, but they do not 

 average any longer. The longest-horned specimen in a series 

 of eight from British East Africa in the National Museum is 

 273^ inches straight or 35 inches measured on the curve. The 

 average horn length in the male is 25 inches. All old males 

 have the tips of the horns greatly worn, and shorter by almost 

 a foot than those of the younger males. Ward's record for 

 East Africa is a specimen shot by Jackson measuring 31^ 

 inches straight. The spread at the tips is usually about 12 



