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front and behind, and are directed upwards and outwards in the plane of the face. 

 The naked muzzle is broad, the gland below the eye small, and the tufted tail 

 reaches below the hocks. Both sexes have a large dewlap ; and the crowns of the 

 upper molar teeth are low and broad. The common eland (Orias canna), which 

 formerly ranged over the greater part of South, East, and Central Africa, is char- 





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THE ELAND [fc nat. size). 



acterised by the horns of the cows being longer and thinner than those of the 

 bulls. The bulls have a tuft of long dark brown hair covering the forehead; but 

 the colour of the rest of the head and body varies from pale fawn to bluish grey ; 

 the blue tint being most marked in old individuals— more especially bulls, in 

 which, owing to the scantiness of the hair, the colour of the skin shows through. 

 In the' southern part of its range the eland is uniformly coloured, but further north 

 there occurs a variety in which the body is marked with vertical white stripes, 



