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both the male and female carry horns. Those of the 

 latter are usually larger and slenderer, but the skin 

 of the female is not so handsomely marked as that 

 of the male. 



It is hard to get near an eland, but as the bull is 

 nearly six feet high at the shoulders it is not espec- 

 ially difficult to hit him at three hundred yards or 

 more. The one I shot was three hundred and sixty- 

 five yards away and carried beautiful horns, 

 twenty- four and one-quarter inches in length. The 

 head of the great bull eland makes a wonderfully 

 imposing trophy -when placed in your baronial halls. 



In the foregoing list of antelopes I have tried to 

 tell a little about the types of that class of animal 

 that I met in my African travels in all, sixteen 

 species of antelope. My chief excuse for doing it 

 is to enable people at home to know the difference 

 betwen a topi and a sun hat and between a sing-sing 

 and a cob. The names of many of the African 

 antelope family are strange and confusing, so that 

 it is little wonder that they mystify people in 

 America. There are a hundred or more kinds, and 

 no one can hope to know them unless he makes a 

 business of it. 



I have not seen the grysbok, or the suni, or the 

 dibitag, or the lechwi, or the aoul, or the gerenuk, 

 or the blaauwbok, or the chevrotain, or lots of 

 others, but who in the world could guess what they 

 were or what they looked like, judging only from 

 the names? 



