74 THE SELOrs COLLECTION. 



following- months I shot many Elands on the eastern bank of the 

 Botletlie river, on the Mababe, and on both sides of the Chobe 

 river. Every one of these Elands was more or less striped, some so 

 faintly as to be barely perceptible, some very plainly. In the 

 Mashuna country, again, to the north-east of the Matabele 

 country, every Eland cow is very plainly striped, many of them 

 having the stripes quite as plain as they are on a Koodoo, and the 

 patches on the inside of the fore legs of a deep black. The one 

 Eland (a cow) which I shot to the north of the Zambesi was 

 beautifully marked, having nine broad white stripes on each side, 

 and a broad black line down the centre of the back. Elands that 

 are much striped often have a whitish mark across the nose, in the 

 same place as in the Koodoo. 



" Old Eland bulls have very little hair on their skins, and look a 

 dark slaty-blue colour, owing to the colour of the skin showing 

 through the scanty hair, and on these old animals, naturally 

 enough, no sign of stripes can be perceived. Old cows also turn 

 to a slate colour from the same cause. In every large herd of 

 Elands, cows are to be seen of every shade of colour from pale 

 fawn to bluish gray. Therefore your old hunter, who knows of 

 four species of Lions, and six or seven Khinoceroses, says that there 

 are two or three distinct species of Elands, the blue, the yellow, 

 and the striped " 



406 —19.7.15.431. 5 November, 1878. Umfuli Eiver, Mashona- 



land, Southern Rhodesia. Cotype. 



407 —19.7.15.432. 5 October, 1880. Umfuli River, Mashoua- 



land, Southern Rhodesia. Cotype. 



408 —19. 7. 15.433 (female). 3 September, 1874. South bank of 



Chobe River, North Bechuanaland. 



409 —19.7.15.434. September, 1885. Near Hanyani River, 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 



410 —19. 7. 15. 435 (female). September, 1885. Near Hanyani 



River, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 



411 —19.7.15.436 (female). 6 August, 1883. Near Hanyani 



River, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 



412 —19. 7. 15. 437 (female). August, 1885. Near Hanyani River, 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 



413 —19. 7. 15. 438. September, 1885. Near Mount Hampden, 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 



414 —19.7.15.439. October, 1885. Near Upper Hanyani River, 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 



