ELANDS AND KOODOOS 
antelopes, six feet in height, and weighing fifteen hundred 
pounds; and the straight, upstanding, closely twisted horns, 
present in both sexes, may measure twenty-eight piands and 
inches long. The form is oxlike, enhanced by a ¥0d00s- 
small hump, great dewlap, and long tail; and the proper color 
is bright fawn, but often the thinness of the hair gives the old 
bulls a bluish cast. Formerly numerous all over eastern and 
southern Africa, the excellence of its 
flesh and hide and the ease with 
which this heavy and comparatively 
slow animal could be killed, together 
with the epidemic of rinderpest which 
swept over central Africa a few years 
ago, have practically exterminated 
this noble species, which soon will be 
visible only in captivity. It breeds 
well in confinement, and there seems 
no reason why it should not be led 
slowly to increase into a valuable do- 
mestic. The Derbian eland is a rare 
and handsome West African form. 
The related koodoos are a genus of large, handsome 
African antelopes with spirally twisted horns (on the male 
alone), whose skins are variegated by irregular white stripes 
down the sides, and by a V-mark below the forehead. Still 
more pleasingly marked are the bush bucks, of which several 
species are scattered over all Africa south of the Sahara, vary- 
ing in size from that of a goat to that of a pony, and having 
richly colored coats ornamented with irregular white stripes, 
while their horns are wavy rather than spiral. All this group 
avoid the open plains and extensive herding, and wander 
alone or in small parties in rough, bushy country, where they 
browse as well as graze. Schillings” has much to say of them, 
and especially of the protective value of their striped coats. 
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AN ELAND BUCK. 
