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but has the coat of a ruddier fawn-colour, and is ornamented on each side of 
the body and hind-quarters with from about eight to eleven narrow vertical 
white stripes: these are strong upon the flanks and faint upon the haunches ; 
they commence from the black spinal stripe and gradually fade away upon 
the belly and lower part of the thighs. In the typical form, moreover, there 
is a large black patch on the inner and posterior side of the fore leg above 
the knee. Horns reaching about 32 inches. 
Female differing from the male in the same respects as in 7. 0. typicus. 
The subspecies 7. 0. gigas is based on a pair of horns obtained by Heuglin 
on the White Nile, and distinguished by their large size, great length 
(35 inches), and strong corrugations. From Schweinfurth’s observations we 
learn that this form carries well-marked body-stripes throughout life, some- 
times 15 in number. In these two respects it would seem to approach 
Taurotragus derbianus, but Schweinfurth says nothing about the black neck 
of the last species. 
Hab. South Africa, from the Cape Colony (where it is now extinct) to 
Angola on the west and to the Transvaal and Mozambique on the east, and 
thence up to the Zambesi; at its northern limits passing into the striped 
form (7! 0. livingstonit), which extends throughout Eastern Africa up to and 
rather beyond Mount Kenia; also found on the White Nile and in the 
adjacent districts (7. 0. gigas). 
At the close of the long series of Antelopes we arrive at the largest and 
finest form of the whole group, and one, moreover, that might well become 
of great economical importance to mankind, if proper measures were taken 
for its acclimatization. 
The “ Eland,” as it is now universally called, was well known to the early 
settlers of the Cape, where it received its name from some fancied resemblance 
to the Elk (Alces machlis), which is the “Eland” of the Hollanders and the 
*“ Klenn” or “Elendthier” of the Germans. It must have been size, we 
suppose, more than any other point of similarity, that induced the Dutchmen 
to apply such an unsuitable name to this animal. 
The old traveller Peter Kolben, about 1719, gave the first recognizable, 
though rather misleading, account of the Eland, which at that epoch was still 
found in the mountains near Capetown. In 1764 Buffon, in the twelfth 
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