178 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
clear rufous fawn. A mesial black stripe extends along the back to above the 
withers. It is broader and of a purer black behind, getting browner anteriorly, and 
finally from the withers and forward along the neck continued in a dull fawn crest. 
The sides of the head and the neck are light grey, tinged more or less with »pale 
ecru» (Rép. de Coul. n:o 66,4). The back of the ears pale sandy grey, basally on 
the outside whitish grey, but the upper half of the outer margin blackish with the 
duskiness encroaching on the upper posterior surface. The extreme tip is white. 
There are four white stripes, 5 to 9 cm. apart, across the body in the shoulder region 
and behind the same. One of these is, however, rather faintly developed. The body 
colour fades gradually from the back downwards on the sides to pale buff, and finally 
to white on the lower side. The hams and hind legs are pale ecru. The fore legs 
more buffish in front and whitish behind with a big black mark situated above the 
»knee» on the posterior outside, just a si sshown on the plate XCVIII in »Book of 
Antelopes» for the typical Eland. A continuous black band encircles the hoofs and 
false hoofs as well on the fore as hind legs. This band is about 2 em. broad, and 
on the fore leg it sends up a mesial streak in front so as to divide the Tragelaphine 
white spot above the hoofs in two. On the hind feet again this white mark above 
the hoofs is undivided. The tail is buff-coloured but with black tuft. In the centre 
of the lower surface of the body is a large blackish patch with longitudinal extension 
but not reaching far forward on the chest. 
This description has been made out rather detailed because it does not appear 
to be known how the cow of Patterson’s Eland looks, and even the characteristics 
of the buck appear to be partly unknown as the type-specimen was not complete. 
As late as in »The Field» newspaper for Nov. 25 1911 Pocock says: »assuming that 
Patterson’s race of the common eland has the feet coloured like Livingstone’s eland» 
— — —. The colour of the feet of Patterson’s Eland was thus not known then, 
but is is of interest to find (conf. above) that it is so essentially Tragelaphine. 
Another passage from Pocock’s above quoted discussion of the colour of the 
different races of Elands may be fully rendered: »Other points of interest noticed 
in the Senegambian example were the colouring of the ear, which was black behind 
in its distal third, with a small white tip, and the presence of a broad black band, 
also observed in the Soudanese animal, extending along the chest and belly.» A 
comparison with the description above proves that these markings are present in my 
specimen of Patterson’s Eland as well, which thus shows some signs of affinity with 
the two mentioned races, although it differs in many other respects. 
The dimensions of the skull of this specimen are as follows: 
Gondylobasallength, > =< ..0 a cs <5) ame os ec nel ene ee 413 mm. 
Basicranial POP AEs Se oli he OARS he pe ae ee 383 
Greatest: breadthy ..ngsteisi six aig: tae -eeaeie ee 177» 
Interorbital breadth at upper incisures .......... 100 >» 
Length ol masala me eee vee feller on ee 177 
Brim of orbit to tip of premaxillary ............ 248 » 
Length’ of apper melariseries!..  - . 6 = = cose ee 131,5 > 
Dength Gf horns ss) Mae) heat ee ee, cen mres comeaied moms 57 
