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ANTELOPES 



" In the herd I stalked there was one bull which looked enormous, 

 and must have had horns well over forty inches, but I lost sight of him 

 in the bush and shot the younger bull in mistake. The animals were 

 very tame, and were not much disturbed by my firing one shot, but 

 the herd was spread out over so much ground that it was next to 

 impossible to stalk any particular individual." 



Fig. 65. — Ilead of Sudani Race of Lord Derby's Eland, from a specimen shot by 

 Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 



The head of a male of the Sudan race of Lord Derby's eland, 

 shown in fig. 65, is from a specimen shot by Sir Robert Harvey in the 

 Bahr-el-Ghazal in the winter of 1907-8. Although it has the largest 

 horns on record, there is no sign of a frontal bush, the chestnut hair on 

 the forehead being quite short ; the hair of the black neck-band is, 

 however, somewhat elongated. In the British Museum this fine species 

 is represented only by horns. 



