ELAND 



TA UROTRA G US LIVINGSTONI 

 SWAHILI : POFU. MASAI : O-SIRUA 



f ^HE eland is the largest of all antelopes 



to be met with on this continent. A 

 bull stands very near eighteen hands 

 at the withers, and is a fine imposing- 

 looking animal to meet. 



In shape they are a mixture between the ante- 

 lope of commerce and Devon cattle, the bull 

 having a hump on his withers and an enormous 

 dewlap. It is Livingstone's eland that is found 

 up here in the north, and this is distinguished 

 from the Cape species by its darker colour, 

 chestnut-fawn, with a brownish knee-mark and 

 vertical thin white lines from the spine, rather 

 more marked in the bull than in the female. 

 The bull has a big tuft of hair on his forehead. 

 The cow is of a rather lighter shade in colour. 

 Both sexes carry horns, shorter and thicker in 

 the bull than in the cow, in which sex they are, as 

 usual, long and thinnish. The horns are straight, 

 screw-shaped, and slightly divergent, leaning 

 backwards all the way. 



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