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Desert, Elands have always been met with, and are even now comparatively numerous. 
But the heads from the herds in this neighbourhood, if one may judge by the few 
specimens which have been obtained, have usually small and misshaped horns. Outside 
the bush-country, on the Mkindu and the Athi Plains, herds of the Eland are occasionally 
met with, but there is no doubt that they migrate from one district to another. It is 
commonly reported that Hlands were never seen on the Athi Plains until a few years 
* ago, but at present, during the months of June, July, and August, Elands are generally 
to be found in the vicinity of the Athi river. In these months of the years 1898 and 
1899 there were, to my knowledge, two or three herds of Elands on the Athi Plains. 
The largest herd that I observed contained over 60 head, but I have never seen a really 
good pair of horns from this neighbourhood.” 
Count Teleki, as we are informed by Herr v. Hohnel in his narrative of the 
first expedition to Lake Rudolf, met with the Eland on the Likipia plateau, 
north of Mount Kenya, where, according to a letter addressed by v. Hohnel 
to Sclater, they encountered a herd of about 170. But we are not aware of 
any evidence of its being found further north in British East Africa or in any 
part of Somaliland. Here, therefore, we appear to have reached its furthest 
limits in this direction, but further west, in the Valley of the Nile, there is good 
evidence of the existence of this form of Antelope in much higher latitudes. 
The famous explorer Baron von Heuglin was the first traveller who 
recorded the existence of an Eland in the districts of the Upper Nile, although 
v. Pruyssenaer (as Heuglin states) had previously recognized its occurrence on 
the Bahr el-Abiad and Bahr-el-Sobat. But Heuglin, having obtained a pair 
of Eland’s horns from the Upper White Nile, about 7° N. lat., referred them, 
on account of their large size, to a new species, “ Boselaphus gigas.” He 
gives a figure of these horns and states that they measure 35 inches in length, 
and show a distance of 32 inches between the two points. We have thought 
it advisable to reproduce Heuglin’s figure of this remarkable pair of horns 
(see fig. 117, p. 208). In a subsequent work (‘ Reise in das Geb. d. Weiss. 
Nil’) Heuglin adds that his Tawrotragus gigas is found in pairs and singly in 
the forests of the Djur River and amongst the Arol negros. 
The well-known traveller Schweinfurth, in his ‘Im Herzen von Afrika,’ 
also alludes more than once to the existence of the Eland on the upper 
confluents of the White Nile. In the first place, he met with it in Bongoland, 
where he says that it resorts to the drier slopes of the hills during the rains, 
and descends to the valleys in the winter months. In the second volume of 
his narrative, Schweinfurth mentions it again, and gives two figures of the 
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