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knees, this form of the eland is stated to be distinguished by 

 the horns being strongly inclined inwards instead of bent 

 backwards. It is further stated to be distinct from the 

 so-called triangularis, which came from the same region. 

 No specimen in collection. 



E. Taurotragns oryx kaufmanni. 



Oreas oreas kaufmanni, Matschie, Deutsche Jager-Zeitung, vol. lix, 



p. 119, 1912. 

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



Typical locality Mount Capri vi, between the Chobi and 

 Zambesi, German S. W. Africa. 



Stated to differ from selousi by the white suborbital 

 streak being angulated instead of linear, and from patter- 

 sonianus (infra) by the frontal tuft being broad and 

 chocolate-brown instead of narrow and chestnut. 



No specimen in collection. 



F. Taurotrag'us oryx pattersonianus. 



Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus, LydeJcker, Field, vol. cviii, p. 579, 

 1906, Novit. Zool. vol. xiv, p. 325, pi. i, 1907, Game Animals of 

 Africa, p. 307, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 330, 

 1910, ed. 7, p. 328, 1914; Hollister, Smithson. Misc. Collect. 

 vol. Ivi, no. 2, p. 10, 1910. 



Oreas pattersonianus, Matschie, Deutsche Jager-Zeitung, vol. lix, 

 p. 119, 1912, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1913, p. 255. 



Typical locality Laikipia Plateau, B. E. Africa. 



General colour pale rufous fawn, with three or four 

 distinct white stripes on and near withers, and more or less 

 clear indications of others farther back ; a dorsal stripe, a 

 garter above hind surface of each knee, and the backs of the 

 pasterns brownish black ; frontal tuft moderately developed, 

 the forehead of adult (not old) males showing a narrow median 

 blackish brown stripe above and between the eyes, flanked 

 on either side by bright orange rufous, with a pair of white 

 streaks, forming an incomplete chevron, below the eyes; 

 lower part of face dark brown, with a lateral fawn patch 

 above each nostril ; neck much more rufous than body. 



6. 10. 14. 1. Head, mounted, and body-skin. Laikipia, 

 B. E. Africa. Type ; head figured, Novit. Zool. loc. cit. 



Presented ty Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, 1906. 



