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fawn ; a whitish stripe running inwards and forwards from the inner edge of the 
eye on each side; upper lip and chin white. Fars large and expanded, much 
larger than in the other species ; the margins broadly white in front and orna- 
mented on the lower side with a large black patch; the posterior surface 
mostly black, brownish at the base. Neck covered with long hair of a dark 
brown or black colour, blacker towards the shoulder than in front; base of the 
neck bordered by a white collar, directed obliquely upwards and backwards at 
least halfway up to the withers. Body of a rich ruddy fawn-colour, becoming 
paler or nearly white below, the middle of the belly black; a broad black 
stripe of longer hairs extending all down the spine from the neck to the root 
of the tail; sides of the body and haunches ornamented with thirteen or 
fourteen narrow white stripes, commencing at the dorsal stripe above and 
gradually fading away on the lower part of the belly and hind-quarters. 
Legs down to the knees and hocks of the same colour externally as the body, 
whitish on the inner side; there is a large black patch on the fore leg above 
the knee on the posterior and inner sides. Horns very large and massive, 
diverging from the base, the divergence in some cases amounting almost 
to a right angle ; length of horns up to about 34°25 inches. 
Female. Smaller than the male, and without the mat of hairs on the 
forehead ; horns smaller and less divergent than in the male, but much more 
strongly twisted and crested than in the females of the other species. 
Hab. Senegal and the Gambia Colony. 
Just as the Kudu, which is spread over the greater part of southern and 
eastern Africa, has a smaller relative (the Lesser Kudu) confined to Somali- 
land, so the Eland, which has a still wider range, has a near, but quite 
distinct, ally in a limited part of western Africa. But in the latter case the 
ally is what is called a “representative form,” since the typical Eland does 
not occur in the same country, whereas in Somaliland both the Greater and 
Lesser Kudus are found together in one district. 
The discovery of the West-African Eland is due to the researches of the 
collector, J. Whitfield, who was employed by the thirteenth Earl of Derby to 
procure living specimens of the larger Antelopes and other animals for his" 
celebrated Knowsley Menagerie. With this object Whitfield made several 
expeditions to the River Gambia, and on his return, in 1846, brought with 
