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front and behind and are directed upwards and outwards in the plane of the face 

 The naked muzzle 1S broad, the gland below the eye small, and the tufted Lil 

 reaches below the hocks. Both sexes have a large dewlap ; and the crowns o tie 

 upper molar teeth are low and broad. The common eland (Orias canna) which 

 formerly ranged over the greater part of South, East, and Central Africa s c ar 



THE ELAND fo nat. size). 



acterised by the horns of the cows being longer and thinner than those of the 

 WUls. I he bulls have a tuft of long dark brown hair covering the forehead; but 

 7 C ° lour of the rest of ^e head and body varies from pale fawn to bluish grey ■ 

 the blue tint being most marked in old individuals— more especially bulls, in 

 which, owing to the scantiness of the hair, the colour of the skin shows through 

 in the southern part of its range the eland is uniformly coloured, but further north 

 there occurs a variety in which the body is marked with vertical white stripes 



