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measure 39^ and 385 inches respectively. They 

 have been referred to a sub-species to be known as 

 Taurotragus Oryx gigas. The horns of the Sene- 

 gambian eland reach as much as 40 inches. 



Stalking eland on foot in Africa beyond the 

 Zambesi is a very different operation from the easy 

 chase of the South African eland on horseback. It 

 means the approach of a suspicious and wary antelope, 

 possessed of excellent sight and wonderful powers of 

 scent, by a man fending for himself in a hot and 

 exhausting climate. Still, elands are pretty often 

 stalked and shot on foot in most parts of Africa. 

 They frequent all kinds of country, open plains, thin 

 bush and forest, grassy glades and clearings, rocky 

 hills and valleys. They are the softest of all antelopes, 

 and yield readily to a well-placed bullet. 



Native names for the eland are, in Bechuana, 

 Pofu ; Kaffir and Zulu, Impofu ; Hottentot, Canna 

 or T'ganna ; Masarwa bushman, Doo ; Makalaka, 

 Ee-pofo ; Mashona, Mofo ; Angola, Gunga and One- 

 vema ; Swahili, M'pofu ; Mandingo (West Africa), 

 Jinke-Janko. 



THE KOODOOS 



The Common or Greater Koodoo (Strepsiceros kudu], 

 as it is one of the handsomest, is at the same time 

 one of the most familiar of all South African ante- 

 lopes. The magnificent spiral horns, attaining as 

 much as 5 feet over the outer curve, and, in a straight 

 line, from base to point, 4 feet, have always had a 



