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Bahr-el-Ghazal district and West Africa. In the 

 striped variety {Taurotragus oryx livingstonianus] 

 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 (T. der- 

 bianus gigas], as represented by a bull figured by 

 Mr. Rothschild in Novitates 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 

 kuclu, although the two stripes do not meet in the 

 middle line. 



"In Colonel Patterson's eland (which may well 

 be designated T. oryx pattersoniamis) 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 



