178 EINAE LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 



clear rufous fawn. A mesial black stripe extends along the back to above the 

 withers. It is broader and of a purer black behind, getting browner anteriorly, and 

 finally from the withers and forward along the neck continued in a dull fawn crest. 

 The sides of the head and the neck are light grey, tinged more or less with »pale 

 ecru» (Rep. de Coul. n:o 66,4). The back of the ears pale sandy grey, basally on 

 the outside whitish grey, but the upper half of the outer margin blackish with the 

 duskiness encroaching on the upper posterior surface. The extreme tip is white. 

 There are four white stripes, 5 to 9 cm. apart, across the body in the shoulder region 

 and behind the same. One of these is, however, rather faintly developed. The body 

 colour fades gradually from the back downwards on the sides to pale buff, and finally 

 to white on the lower side. • The hams and hind legs are pale ecru. The fore legs 

 more huffish in front and whitish behind with a big black mark situated above the 

 »knee» on the posterior outside, just a si sshown on the plate XCVIII in »Book of 

 Antelopes* for the typical Eland. A continuous black band encircles the hoofs and 

 false hoofs as well on the fore as hind legs. This band is about 2 cm. broad, and 

 on the fore leg it sends up a mesial streak in front so as to divide the Tragelaphine 

 white spot above the hoofs in two. On the hind feet again this white mark- above 

 the hoofs is undivided. The tail is buff -coloured but with black tuft. In the centre 

 of the lower surface of the body is a large blackish patch with longitudinal extension 

 but not reaching far forward on the chest. 



This description has been made out rather detailed because it does not appear 

 to be known how the cow of Patterson's Eland looks, and even the characteristics 

 of the buck appear to be partly unknown as the type-specimen was not complete. 

 As late as in --The Field* newspaper for Nov. 25 1911 Pocock says: » assuming that 

 Patterson's race of the common eland has the feet coloured like Livingstone's eland » 



— ■ . The colour of the feet of Patterson's Eland was thus not known then, 



but is is of interest to find (conf. above) that it is so essentially Tragelaphine. 



Another passage from Pocock's above quoted discussion of the colour of the 

 different races of Elands may be fully rendered: » Other points of interest noticed 

 in the Senegambian example were the colouring of the ear, which was black behind 

 in its distal third, with a small white tip, and the presence of a broad black band, 

 also observed in the Soudanese animal, extending along the chest and beUy.> A 

 comparison with the description above proves that these markings are present in my 

 specimen of Patterson's Eland as well, which thus shows some signs of affinity with 

 the two mentioned races, although it differs in many other respects. 



The dimensions of the skull of this specimen are as follows: 



Condylobasal length 413 mm. 



Basioranial » 3g3 „ 



Greatest breadth I77 „ 



Interorbital breadth at upper incisures ... .... 100 » 



Length of nasals 177 „ 



Brim of orbit to tip of premaxillary 248 » 



Length of upper molar series I3I 5 » 



Length of horns 51J , 



