3o6 ANTELOPES 



The Zambesi race, T. oryx livingstonei, of which the type locality 

 is Sesheke, north of the Victoria Falls of the Central Zambesi/ which 

 presents the following characteristics : body-colour a deeper fawn on 

 the back, marked with eight or nine vertical white stripes, more con- 

 spicuous in young than in aged animals, a dark dorsal stripe, and 

 dark brown bands above the knees, which tend to fade with age ; fore- 

 head of old bulls with a dark brown " bush," and typically no white 

 chevron {teste the plate in Livingstone's South Africa). The calves 

 are reddish fawn. 



This race apparently extends southwards of the Zambesi to 

 Mashonaland, as exemplified by a mounted male and female in the 

 British Museum (Natural History). It is noticeable, however, that the 

 bull now shows no dark knee-bands ; but probably they have faded 

 out. In Mashonaland, as exemplified by the heads of two bulls 

 figured in Mr. Selous's A Hunters Wanderings, an imperfect white 

 chevron may coexist with a large dark brown " bush " on the forehead, 

 thus leading on to — 



The East African race, T. oryx pattersonianus, which has the 

 following characteristics (so far as these can be determined mainly 

 from a single specimen) : body pale rufous fawn, marked with three 

 distinct white stripes on the withers, and faint indications of other 

 stripes farther back ; small dark knee-bands and dark dorsal stripe ; 

 forehead of adult bulls apparently with only a small " bush " of long 

 hair, a narrow stripe in the middle line of the forehead above 

 and between the eyes black, the sides of the forehead bright rufous, 

 and an incomplete white chevron below the eyes ; and the lower 

 part of the face dark brown, wnth a fawn patch on each side above 

 the nostril. 



Here it may be mentioned that an eland-head from Portuguese 

 East Africa — apparently an adult bull— in the possession of Mr. P. B. 

 Vander Byl, has the face coloured similarly to that of the British East 

 African race, but without the white chevron, although lacking a large 

 frontal " bush." I am informed, however, by Capt. Stevenson Hamilton 

 that two young elands recently caught in Portuguese Africa had the 

 white chevron. It may be added that a few of the bulls in the herd 

 of eland at Woburn Abbey show a chevron, which is, however, buff 

 instead of white. 



^ In liis original description of Oryx (= Taitroiragus) livingstoiiei {Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1864, p. 104) Dr. Sclater refers first to eland from Usagara, German East Africa, and then to 

 others obtained by Sir J. Kirk just north of the Zambesi. I consider it, however, admissible 

 to take as the type of this form the eland obtained by Livingstone at Sesheke, as has already 

 been done by Mr. .Selous. 



