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‘horns of what he calls the Central-African Eland, of two very different forms. 
Schweinfurth states that the skin is plainly striped, and that this is certainly 
no mark of youth, because he has seen very old examples which had about 
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Horns of Taurotragus oryw gigas. 
(Heuglin, Ant. u. Buff. N.O.-Afr. pl. i. fig. 2.) 
fifteen narrow parallel stripes, about a finger in breadth, on both sides. It is 
quite evident, therefore, that the Eland of this part of Africa belongs to the 
striped form. It may be identical with 7. o. livingstonii, but, as Heuglin 
