eevtia ) Hay FINDING OF THE NEW ELAND — 315 
Bahr-el-Ghazal district and West Africa. In the 
striped variety (Zaurotragus oryx lhvingstonianus) 
of the ordinary South African eland, the whole 
middle line of the face of the adult bull is uniformly 
dark, or even blackish-brown, with a tuft of long 
bushy hair on the forehead, and no white stripe 
from the lower angle of the eye. On the other 
hand, in the Sudani form of the giant eland (7: der 
bianus gigas), as represented by a bull figured by 
Mr. Rothschild in Movztates Zoologicae for 1905, 
the upper part of the face has the hair rufous and 
shorter than in the ordinary eland, while from the 
lower angle of each eye a white stripe runs inwards 
and downwards, recalling the white chevron of the 
kudu, although the two stripes do not meet in the 
middle line. 
‘In Colonel Patterson’s eland (which may well 
be designated 7. oryx pattersonianus) there is an 
incomplete white chevron similar to, although rather 
smaller than, the one found in the giant eland, while 
only a narrow stripe in the middle line of the face, 
above and between the eyes, is dark-brown, the 
sides of the forehead being rufous. On the lower 
part of the face there is a larger dark-brown area 
than in the ordinary eland, although there is a 
rufous fawn-coloured patch on each side above 
the nostril. In both the latter respects Colonel 
Patterson's specimen recalls the giant  eland, 
although it apparently lacks the dark white- 
bordered band on the side of the neck, characteristic 
of the latter. If all the elands from that part of 
Portuguese East Africa where Colonel Patterson’s 
