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out flesh, hides, horns, and fat, elands still manage to 

 maintain their existence. 



Of the Southern Eland (Taurotragus oryx, a new 

 scientific name, which I am sorry to find ousting the 

 old and familiar Oreas cannd] two varieties or sub- 

 species are found, the unstriped or desert eland, once 

 frequenting all South Africa as far north as the 

 Botletli river, Ngamiland, and the striped or Living- 

 stone's eland (T. oryx livings tonei\ found near and 

 beyond the Zambesi, in Rhodesia, Angola, Nyasaland, 

 and elsewhere. The unstriped eland is in these days 

 generally supposed to be confined only to the 

 Kalahari. Within the last few years, however, Mr. 

 F. V. Kirby has found elands in Portuguese Northern 

 Zambesia, the Lower Shire district, and the 

 Chiringoma country, Portuguese East Africa, which 

 show no vestige of striping. As a rule, it is to be 

 noted, only striped elands are met with in these 

 countries. From British Central Africa and Portu- 

 guese East Africa the range of the striped eland 

 extends as far north as British East Africa. 



A very little known race of eland, carrying much 

 larger horns than the common species, is known as 

 the Senegambian eland (^Faurotragus derbianus}. This 

 splendid species still, I believe, inhabits the interior of 

 Senegambia and Gambia. Living specimens were 

 imported and maintained at Knowsley some two 

 generations since by the Lord Derby of that time ; 

 but to English hunters the beast seems to be now 

 completely unknown. A journey to the Gambia, in 

 search of the grand horns of this splendid species 



