THE sEr,ous coli-ectiox. 75 



EAST A Fill CAN ELAND. 



TaUKOTHAGUS OKYX l'ATTERSOMA>'rS. 



Taurotragus oryx patter sonianus, Lydekker, Field, vol. cviii. p. 579, 

 1906 ; Novit. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 325, pi. i., 1907. 



Aery closely allied to the foregoing race ; general colour rather 

 darker, with a darker mane. As in the case of the Mashonaland 

 race the white suborbital markings ai'e only present in animals not 

 very advanced in age, and similarly the gradual increase of size of 

 the frontal tuft from a dark central streak to a broad long-haired 

 growth is also a change brought about b}' age. 



The only sjjecimen of this Eland in the Collection is a bull with 

 horns measuring as follows : — length from point to base 24 ; circum- 

 ference 10| ; spread from tip to tip lO^. 



Typical locality, Laikipia Plateau, Naivasha Province, Kenya 

 Colony ; range includes the greater part of Keiij^a Colony, the race 

 extending as far north as the Northern Guaso Nyiro Valley, and 

 penetrating northwards from the typical locality into Uganda. It 

 also occurs in Tanganyika Teri'itory and further south probably 

 merges with the Mashonaland form. 



415 -19.7.15.440. Sirgoit Hills, Uasin Gishii District, Kenya 



Colony. 



SUDAN DEUBY ELAND. 



TAUROTRAtirS BERUTAISUS UIWAS. 



TanrotrcKjus (Boselivphus) oreas, Heuglin, Nova Acta Ac. Cfes. Lcop.-Car. 



vol. XXX. p. 19, 1863; Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 319, 1869, nee Antilope 



oreas, Pallas. 

 Taurotragus (Boselaphus) gigas, Heuglin, Nova Acta Ac. Ca3s. Leop.-Car. 



vol. XXX. p, 19, pi. i. fig. 2, 1863 ; Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 318, 1869. 

 Taurotragus gigas. Baker, Wild Beasts and their Ways, vol. ii. p. 189, 



1890. 

 Taurotragus oryv gigas, Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv. 



p. 198, 1900. 

 Taurotragus derbianus gigas, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. vol. xii. p. 447, 



pi. xii., 1905 ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. xii. p. 575, 1913. 



Closely allied to the typical form from West Africa, distin- 

 guished by the adult males being lighter in colour and having 



