Mammals from Tanganyika Territory. 599 



So far as can be judged from the remains of the pasterns, 

 they are hhick as in pat^ersoniarrus. 



Mrs. Billingc, writing to the Game Department, says: 

 ''The elands here [Irin^i-a] are very short in the leg, round, 

 and heavy, and not tall. The cows are very red indeed, 

 with black manes, and many long and distinct stripes. 

 The younger cows are far redder than the accompanying 

 skin, and, with the sun on them, appear as red as any animals 

 can. Tiie bulls, three of which I have observed closely and 

 through glasses, are absolutely blue, and appear, even on the 

 inside of legs, to have no fawn at all. The mane is black 

 and very heavy. They have little below the neck, but a 

 great deal above. The horns of both sexes are very short, 

 massive, and heavy, with very wide spreads, and, so far as I 

 can observe, the tips invariably point outwards ; whereas 

 in the others [Rualia| tliey point inwards in all those I 

 have seen. The contrast in colour is the sharpest I have 

 ever seen between sexes in mammals. The country they 

 frequent is the high cold parts, with huge great boggy and 

 grassy plains, and the slopes, where they spend most of the 

 year, thick, but low and scrubby, mahobohobo forests. 

 They will face hills, when chased, that goats would think 

 twice over, and, in spite of huge size and short legs, appear 

 to go up them and among the boulders with the greatest of 

 ease. They are in small herds of about four or five, the 

 biggest I have seen consisting of about ten. I have never 

 seen a small calf, so conclude that these are ' laid by.' 

 The natives say that elands do this." 



51. Taurotragus oryx subsp. 



? . R. 189. Kazera^s, Kiganga, Ruaha, about 35° 37' E., 

 7° 30' S. 



In this skin, also sent by Mrs. Billinge, the head and 

 the entire legs are wanting. This is more of the ordinary 

 eland type, though there is a distinct ruddy tinge on the 

 back. The stripes are few, three on one side and two on 

 the other, on the shoulders. This eland will probably be 

 found to be identical with pattersonianus, but the skin is too 

 fragmentary for this question to be settled. 



Mrs. Billinge, of the eland from the Ruaha River, writes : 

 " These elands are much higher on the leg, flatter-sided, 

 and taller, and do not appear such heavily built animals, 

 though actual difference in weight caniiot be much. They 

 are all, bulls and cows alike, the fawn-red of the present 

 skin. A very old bull may look a little bluer, but not much. 



