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Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pi. ii, 

 p. 258, 1884; Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 291, 1889 ; Hunter, 

 Willoughby's Great Game E. Africa, p. 287, 1889 ; Crawshay, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 658 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. 

 pt. 2, p. 152, 1891 ; Flower and LydekJcer, Study of Mammals, 

 p. 348, 1891 ; Nicolls and Eglington, Sportsman in S. Africa, 

 p. 54, 1892 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 504, 1894, p. 145, 

 1896, p. 797 ; LydeJcker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 258, 1893 ; Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 506 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. 

 ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 81, 1897. 



Antilope (Damalis) oreas, Peters, Reise nacli Mossambique, SdugetJi. 

 p. 192, 1852. 



Antilope (Taurotragus) oreas, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, Suppl. 

 vol. v, p. 439, 1855. 



Antilope (Addax) oreas, Laurillard, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. p. 620, 1861. 



Oreas oreas, Jentink, Cat. Osteol. Leyden Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 vol. ix) p. 140, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (op. cit. vol. xi) 

 p. 172, 1892 ; Matschie, Sdugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrika, p. 141, 

 1895. 



Antilope triangularis, Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 73 ; Sclater, 

 ibid. 1896, p. 506. 



Doratoceros triangularis, Lydekker, Field, vol. Ixxviii, p. 130, 1891, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. viii, p. 192, 1891, Horns and 

 Hoofs, p. 260, 1893. 



Taurotragus oryx, Lydekker, Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 p. 421, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 304, 1908 ; Sclater 

 and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 195, pis. xcviii and 

 xcix, 1900; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 932; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 327, 1910, ed. 7, p. 325, 1914 ; 

 Carruccio, Boll. Soc. Zool. ital. ser. 3, vol. 2, p. 77, 1913. 



Oreas oryx, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1913, p. 255. 



Oreas triangularis, Matschie, op. cit. 1913. 



ELAND. 



Typical locality South Africa. 



The type species ; also type of Oreas and Doratoceros. 



Height reaching to ahout 5 feet 7 inches, or perhaps 

 6 feet at withers. Ears pointed and relatively narrow, with, 

 at most, a small black patch on outer border of backs ; 

 general colour greyish or pale rufous tawny, usually with a 

 dark dorsal stripe, and with or without a variable number of 

 narrow vertical white stripes; neck coloured more or less 

 nearly like back ; frontal tuft well developed, in some cases 

 with orange borders, in others wholly dark; a suborbital 

 white streak present or absent ; tuft on dewlap and tail- tuft 

 black; fore-legs with or without a dark garter on hind 

 surface above knees ; back of pasterns dirty white or black. 

 Horns of moderate size; fine specimens measuring from 



