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species, Antilope triangularis, by Dr. Giinther and a genus, 

 Doratoceros, by Dr. Lydekker. The name triangularis reminds 

 their triangular form in transverse section. 



As I said before our female Eland has abnormal horns : 

 they present in transverse section about the same figure 

 as Dr. Günther's triangularis ; they hov(?^ever are much 

 more curved, as our figure shows; Dr. Günther's speci- 

 men was larger than Dr. Sclater's, it measures 31 inches 

 (77.5 cm.) along the curve. Our horns are still larger, 

 measuring along the curve full 86 cm. 



A closer inspection of the horns under consideration 

 learns however that they are not genuine, but very artis- 

 tically carved from wood. We may however accept that 

 Dr. von Horstock, a scientific man and excellent zoologist, 

 can not have ordered to carve from wood a non-existent 

 monster, at the same time nobody would have been in 

 Leyden so foolish as to adorn an eventually hornless animal 

 with wooden horns of a shape never seen before, so that 

 we must admit that our abnormal horns have been carefully 

 copied from the original and that without doubt the 

 original horns have been retained by the owner in the 

 Cape Colony as curiosities. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXIII. 



