3 i4 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 



thing, there was no long tuft of hair on the 

 forehead, while from the lower corner of each 

 eye ran an incomplete white stripe similar to, 

 though smaller than, those found in the giant 

 eland. The sides of the forehead were of a 

 reddish colour, and on the lower part of the face 

 there was a much larger brown patch than is to 

 be seen on the ordinary eland. The striping on 

 the body was very slight, the chief markings being 

 three lines across the withers. On my return to 

 England in April, I sent the head to Rowland 

 Ward's to be set up, and while there it was 

 seen by Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., of the British 

 Museum, the well-known naturalist and specialist 

 in big game, who wrote to tell me that it 

 possessed great zoological interest, as showing the 

 existence of a hitherto unknown race of eland. 

 Mr. Lydekker also contributed the following notice 

 describing the animal to The Field of September 29, 

 1906 : 



" Considerable interest attaches to the head of an 

 eland, killed by Colonel J. H. Patterson in Portu- 

 guese 1 East Africa, and set up by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward, on account of certain peculiarities in colouring 

 and markings, which indicate a transition from the 

 ordinary South African animal in the direction of 

 the giant eland (Taurotragus derbianns) of the 



1 In error for " British." 



