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varying from a light tawny yellow to the slaty blue of old age, while in some 
the stripes are clearly defined, in others faintly, and in others again they are 
not distinguishable at all. 
In 1895 Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., F.Z.S., presented to the Zoological 
Society of London a remarkably fine pair of horns of Livingstone’s Eland, 
which are now suspended in their meeting-room at Hanover Square. The 
animal which carried them was shot in 1893 in Nyasaland between Zomba 
and Lake Chilwa. By the kind favour of that Society we are able to insert 
in these pages a copy of the figure of these horns (fig. 116, p. 205), which 
was published in the ‘ Proceedings’ for 1895. 
When we go further north into German East Africa, the Eland appears to 
be not quite so abundant, although Herr Matschie mentions it as found in 
Usagara, and it was seen by Neumann between the Pangani River and 
Trangi during his recent journey, besides having been met with in Ugogo by 
Speke and Grant in former years. 
In British East Africa it would appear to be more prevalent again, although 
somewhat local. Mr. Jackson, in his volume on ‘ Big Game,’ writes as follows 
concerning its range and habits in that country :— 
“The striped variety of the Eland is the only one found in British East Africa. It is 
known to the Swahilis as ‘ Mpofu,’ and is decidedly a local beast. It is seen more often 
in open bush and country thinly wooded with mimosa-trees than quite out in the open. 
In 1887 it was plentiful round Taveta, where I have seen as many as from sixty to 
seventy in one herd. In the open bush country west of Mount Kisigao Elands are fairly 
numerous. Other places in which they are found are the park-like country below Ndi 
in Teita; the open country east of Ndara and north of Mount Maungu; and the 
Siringeti plains. I have also seen them between Lakes Nakuro and Baringo, and again 
in Turkwel, in the Suk country. As a rule they go about in herds of from four or five 
up to fifteen or twenty. Sometimes two or three bulls will be found together, but very 
often an old bull is met with quite by himself.” 
Mr. 8. L. Hinde has kindly favoured us with the following field-notes of 
his recent experience of the Eland in British East Africa :— 
“ Having just returned from British East Africa, where I have spent the greater part 
of the last five years, the following field-notes may be of some interest to you. The 
Eland of East Africa, which, so far as I have observed, has well-marked white stripes on 
its back and haunches, is both rare and wary. It is reported to have suffered severely 
from the rinderpest in the early nineties. In the bush-country within 200 miles of 
the coast, and more particularly in the neighbourhood of what is known as the Taro 
