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THE ANTELOPES IN 



wise to follow the authors of the book of Antelopes iu 

 calling the Eland by its eldest name oryx according to 

 the rules of priority. 



In South-Africa the Eland is at present one of the rarest 



Taurotragus oryx (Pallas). 



animals, in the Cape Colony it is practically extinct. I 

 hardly believe that there exists in any Museum, besides 

 in the Leyden Museum, a skin from the latter country. In 

 our Museum are two stufied specimens, an adult male and 

 a female, besides the skin of a young male: they belong 

 to the collections brought together for that Museum by 

 the zealous Dr. von Horstock ; therefore we know exactly 

 that the mentioned specimens have been shot in the southern 

 parts of the Cape Colony. 



The female has the horns »anormales et courbees" (see 

 my Catalogue systematique. Tome XI, p. 172). 



Now abnormal horns of the female Eland have been 

 twice recorded, namely by Dr. Günther in 1889 and by 

 Dr. Sclater in 1896 : upon these horns has been based a 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, Vol. XXIII. 



