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abnormal horns of the cow Eland. These horns were first brought before 
the scientific world by Dr. Giinther, who exhibited a pair of them at a 
meeting of the Zoological Society in 1889, and stated that they had been 
obtained on the frontiers of Natal. Dr. Giinther’s opinion was that they 
belonged to an unknown Antelope of the Tragelaphine group, but under the 
uncertainty as to what form they were most nearly allied, he proposed to 
designate the presumed species Antilope triangularis. ‘Through the courtesy 
of the Zoological Society of London, and with Dr. Giinther’s kind _per- 
mission, we are able to reproduce here the illustration of these horns (fig. 118, 
p. 209) which accompanied Dr. Giinther’s paper in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings.’ 
Writing of these horns in 1891, Mr. Lydekker was so convinced of their 
essential difference from those of any other known Antelope that he pro- 
posed to raise the animal that bore them to generic rank under the name 
“ Doratoceros.” 
Some years subsequently, in 1896, Sclater obtained, on loan, a fine pair of 
horns of nearly similar character from Mr. Justice Hopley, of Kimberley, and, 
after comparing them with the typical pair of Antilope triangularis in the 
British Museum, came to the conclusion that they must have belonged to the 
same species of Antelope. Mr. Justice Hopley’s pair were not quite so long, 
rather more incurved backwards, and less broadly spread; they were also 
smoother at the base, showing but slight traces of corrugations. When 
exhibiting these horns to the Zoological Society, Mr. Sclater stated that he 
could see nothing whatever to negative the opinion, already prevailing 
amongst other naturalists, that these horns were abnormal horns of the cow 
Eland, which had grown into a lengthened form without making the 
ordinary twist usually observable in that species and in other Tragelaphs. It 
is right to add that Mr. Lydekker himself is now also of the same opinion, 
and has stated (‘Horns and Hoofs,’ p. 260) that these horns ‘are almost 
certainly abnormal specimens of those of a cow Eland.” 
As we have already stated, living examples of the Eland were received in 
Holland from the Cape as long ago as about 1783, when they were described 
by Vosmaer and others as being in the menagerie of the Prince of Orange. 
In England the first examples of this species of which we can find any record 
were those which constituted the herd in the celebrated menagerie of Edward, 
13th Earl of Derby, President of the Zoological Society of London, ‘There 
is, unfortunately, little information available as to the origin and history of 
