ELAND 1 5 



In 1910 Mr. E. Heller (Smithsonian Misc. Collections, vol. liv. No. 

 6, p. I ) proposed the name Osanna roosevelti for the sable antelope of 

 the Shimba Hills, British East Africa, basing his description on a 

 female skin. Compared with the typical South African animal, the 

 specimen is stated to have the upper-parts much lighter, only the dark 

 head-stripes, throat, and fore-legs being black, while the general body- 

 colour is light chestnut. There is also less marked contrast between 

 the dark and light face-stripes, the light ones being buffish yellow in 

 place of white. The head of a male from the same region in the 

 British Museum, presents, however, no appreciable difference in colour 

 from Mashonaland bucks ; and it is thus quite clear that the East 

 African animal is, at most, nothing more than a local race of the 

 sable antelope, which may be characterised by the paler colouring 

 of the female, and perhaps by the relatively late age at which the 

 dark livery is assumed. At present there is nothing to distinguish 

 the British East African animal from Hippotragus niger kirki of the 

 Batoka Hills ; but if it should eventually be proved distinct, it should 

 be known as H. n. roosevelti. 



THE ELAND 



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In the sixth edition of Mr. Rowland Ward's " Records of Big 

 Game," 1910 (p. 328), I have proposed the name Taurotragus oryx 

 selousi for the Mashonaland eland, as typified by the heads figured in 

 Mr. Selous's "A Hunter's Wanderings," one of which is reproduced in 

 plate xii. of the volume to which the present contribution is a supple- 

 ment. Mashona eland have an incomplete white chevron on the 

 forehead, with a large frontal tuft of brown hair. 



LORD DERBY'S ELAND 



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The first paragraph in the text should read as follows : 

 This magnificent eland, of which a bull from the Bahr-el-Ghazal 

 stood 5 ft. 8 in. at the shoulder, was first known in this country from 

 Senegambian horns and skins sent home by Whitfield, collector for the 

 menagerie then maintained at Knowslcy by the I 3th Earl of Derby. 

 The name was given in 1847 by Dr. J. E. Gray on the evidence of a 

 pair of horns. 



