2Le RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
The unstriped Eland of Africa south of the Zambesi, which is un- 
known to the north of that river, is now, thanks to the unrelenting war 
of extermination waged against it for two hundred years past, becoming 
extremely scarce. It may indeed be said with truth that, except in 
the Northern Kalahari, where large herds of these magnificent antelopes 
still roam, the unstriped Eland is now almost shot out of South Africa. 
Towards the Zambesi, and eastward and northward into the Continent, 
the striped variety (Oveas derbianus) takes the place of Oreas canna. 
The unstriped Eland attains larger proportions than its striped con- 
gener. In the good days, when these beasts were plentiful, bulls have 
been shot measuring 6 feet 6 inches at the shoulder. If the enormous 
bulk of a fat bull Eland is remembered, this measurement is, for an 
antelope, prodigious. The Elands still to be found in the Kalahari 
wander far from any water, and, during seven or eight months in the 
year, subsist entirely without that element. When found, no game is 
so easily run up to by the mounted man as the Eland, and, as a rule, 
no game falls more quickly to the bullet. 
HEIGHT at shoulder, 5 feet 9 inches (F. C. Selous). WEIGHT 
of adult male, about 9 cwt. 
Distribution—The Kalahari desert: north of Bamangwato, along the 
roads leading to Lake Ngami, and to the Victoria Falls of the 
Zambesi. In all country between the Botletli and Chobe rivers ; 
between the Chobe and Zambesi rivers (F. C. Selous) ; Manica- 
land, Matabeleland, Mashonaland, Nyassaland; British and German 
East Africa, Kaokoland, Gambia, and Angola. 
Length, Circum- 
crrarahitline’ ference: | Tip to Tip. Habitat. Owner. 
40 13% (single ah Berlin Museum. 
horn) 
—393 aes soe ane Paris Museum. 
344 14h 22¢ Gambia : Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
—34 133 a0 oe F. Coburn. 
34 * 122 ae a J. Carr Saunders. 
—34* 114 17 Gambia . | Dublin Museum. 
324 * 124 298 Do. : . | Earl of Derby, British Museum. 
324 * 9+ 123 Sas Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
* Oreas derbianus. 
