28 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
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Bulls of the eland stand from 5 feet 9 inches to perhaps as much 
as 6 feet at the shoulder. They have a large tuft of hair on the 
forehead, and the horns are of moderate length and stoutness. The 
typical race (7. oryx typicus), which formerly extended from the Cape 
nearly to the Zambesi, has a uniformly tawny skin, without transverse 
white stripes or a dark brown band above the knees, and appears to 
be the largest form. Farther north a dark brown knee-band is 
assumed by adult bulls; and towards the Zambesi, and thence 
Head of Sudani race of Lord Derby’s Eland. From a specimen shot by 
Sir Robert Harvey. 
north and east into the heart of the continent, the bulls have not 
only this dark knee-band, but the body in both sexes is marked by 
fine vertical white lines. The striped variety is named 7. oryr Living- 
stonez. In Mashonaland eland show an incomplete white chevron on 
the face, with a large brown tuft on the forehead ; this race, as typified 
by heads figured in A Hunter's Wanderings, may be called 7. 0. selousz. 
In British East Africa the sides of the forehead are chestnut in place 
of dark brown ; a white chevron is present, and the frontal tuft is small ; 
this race is named 7. 0. pattersontanus. Westward the species ranges 
into Angola. 
