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him some horns of a large Antelope nearly resembling those of the South- 
African Eland, but “larger, longer, and much heavier.” In his expedition 
of 1847 Whitfield succeeded in procuring from the same district the upper 
part of the skull and horns of a male and the flat skins (unfortunately 
without heads or feet) of an adult male and female of this animal, of which 
the native name was said to be “ Gingi-ganga.” It was upon these specimens 
that the late Dr. Gray, in October 1847, established his species Boselaphus 
derbianus, by publishing a short description of it in the ‘Annals and Magazine 
of Natural History’ for that month. It has been imagined, and even stated 
in print, that living specimens of this Eland were received by Lord Derby ; 
but such, we believe, was not the case. ‘The drawings made by Waterhouse 
Hawkins, and subsequently issued in the ‘Gleanings from the Knowsley 
Menagerie,’ were taken, we believe, not from living examples, but from the 
specimens brought home by Whitfield, as already mentioned. 
So far as we know, no further information respecting this remarkable 
Antelope was brought to Europe until 1863, when the well-known African 
traveller, the late Mr. Winwood Reade, returned to England from one of 
his expeditions into Western Africa. Along with other spoils of the chase, 
Reade brought with him a head and skin of the present Antelope, which he 
at first believed to be undescribed; but on inspecting them, at Reade’s 
request, Sclater at once recognized them as belonging to the little-known 
Derbian Eland, and persuaded Reade to exhibit them at a meeting of the 
Zoological Society of London in May of that year. Reade’s notes upon this 
occasion were subsequently published in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ and 
illustrated by a plate drawn by Joseph Wolf from Mr. Reade’s specimens. 
So little is known of this most interesting Antelope, that we propose to give 
Mr. Reade’s account of it at full length as follows :— 
“When I was on the Casamanza, a river of Senegambia, in December 1862, I was 
informed of the existence of an enormous Antelope, double the size of the Senegal 
Bullock, with horns lying backwards, a black mane, and white stripes on its sides. My 
‘French host informed me that it was unknown in France, which is quite true, as, 
in fact, its very existence has been denied by French naturalists. I asked where this 
animal was most abundant, and was told in the bamboo-forest of Bambunda, about fifty 
miles north-east of Sedhu, where I was staying. I immediately rode over to a village 
called Nussera, situated on the borders of the forest, taking a rifle with me. The 
hunters of that village told me that at that time it would be impossible to kill the Djik-i- 
Junka, the bush being dark, as they expressed it; but that in a few weeks they would 
