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readily out of a bowl, and very soon become perfectly tame. I was, 

 however, never able to rear any of those I caught, and now believe it was 

 because I gave them too much fresh cow's milk, which produced diarrhoea, 

 from which they never recovered, but gradually became weaker and weaker 

 until they succumbed. The horns of an eland bull attain their full length 

 before he develops the immense neck and the growth of long coarse black 

 hair on the forehead, which are the distinguishing features of an old bull ; 

 and when this stage has been reached, the horns have often been much 

 worn down, or rubbed away at the points. 



The longest pair of eland bull horns I have ever seen belonged to an 

 animal that was shot close to my camp on the Hanyani River in Mashuna- 

 land in 1887 by a Boer hunter named Karl Weyant. I measured them 

 carefully with a tape-line and they were 33 inches in length, and very 

 thick and heavy as well. 1 The longest pair of cow horns I have ever seen 

 I shot myself in the Northern Kalahari. They measured 34 inches in 

 length, but were a very ugly and uneven pair, and I did not keep them. 2 



F. C. Selous. 



In Nyasaland 



Known by various native names in different districts, sefu, nchefu, etc. 

 The eland found in British Central Africa is the striped variety 

 (" Livingstone's eland," Taarotragus oryx livingstonci) . 



It is fairly plentiful throughout the Nyasa regions, and — although 

 found in nearly all descriptions of country, and at various elevations — is 

 most numerous in the wooded hills and high-lying open grass districts west 

 of Lake Nyasa. 



' This pair of horns, which I endeavoured to secure for the British Museum, are now in Graharnstown, 



Sot 



ith Africa, in the possession of a Mr. Chapman. 









- The longest recorded pair of eland horns— those of a cow- 



-measure 



: 35t 3 u inches 



froi 



11 British Central Africa, and are in the possession of Dr. Pen 



:y Renda 



11. These a 



Liv 



ingstone eland (Tiiurotragm oryx livingltswi). — En. 







