198 
Emp. p. 529 (1893) ; Bocage, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 745 ; id. J. Sci. Lisboa, ii. p. 25 
(1890) (Angola) ; Crawshay, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 658 (Nyasaland). 
Oreas derbii, Johnust. River Congo, p. 391 (1884) (?). 
Subspecies c. TAUROTRAGUS ORYX GIGAS. 
Alces oreas, Schweinf. Im Herz. Afr. i. p. 887 (1874). 
Antilope oreas, id. ibid. ii. pp. 264-266 (horns). 
Taurotragus (Bosephalus) oreas, Heugl. N. Act. Leop. xxx. p. 19 (1863); id. Reise 
Weiss. Nil, p. 319 (1869). 
Taurotragus (Boselaphus) gigas, Heugl. N. Act. Leop. xxx. p. 19, pl. i. fig. 2 (1868) ; 
id. Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 318 (1869); Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 179 
(1869). 
Vernacutar Names :—Eland of the Dutch at the Cape; Canna or Tiganna of the 
Hottentots ; Pohu of the Bachapins (Burchell). Pofo of the Bechuanas ; Impofo of 
the Amandabele, Zulu, and Kafirs; He-pofo of the Makalakas; Insefo of the 
Masubias and Batongas; Doo of the Masurwa Bushmen; Mofo of the Mashunas 
(Selous). Sofu and Nehefoo in Nyasaland (Sharpe). Mpofu (Swaheli) ; Musu 
in Siruwa, B.H.A. (Jackson). Qualqual (Djeng), Adgar (Djur), Newarreh (Dor) 
on the White Nile (Heuglin). 
Adult male, at the withers, about five feet ten inches or, according to some 
writers, sometimes considerably over six feet in height. Body, head, legs, 
and neck of a tolerably uniform tawny colour, but often assuming a slaty- 
grey hue in old age, owing to the rubbing off of the hair and the consequent 
exposure of the skin beneath. Frontal mat of hairs varying from yellowish 
brown to black, apparently becoming darker with age; nose generally ashy 
black; lips and chin white. Ears narrow and pointed, of a uniform greyish- 
fawn tint, with at most a small black patch on the lower rim in front. A 
narrow black spinal stripe, extending from the withers to the base of the tail. 
Tail-tuft and tuft of hair on the dewlap biack. Legs like the body, but, onthe 
inner side, sometimes with a greyish patch above the knee on the pasterns; 
back of the pasterns and narrow rim above the hoofs and false hoofs black. 
Horns about 30 inches or more in length. 
Female like the male in colouring, but smaller and more slightly built ; the 
horns thinner, less strongly crested, and less twisted, but usually longer and 
(exceptionally) reaching a length of 34 inches. 
The subspecies 7. 0. livingstonii is generally similar to the typical form, 
