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home, amongst other spoils of the chase, a fine pair of horns of this 
Antelope, which were exhibited by Sclater at a Meeting of the Zoological 
Society on May 5th of that year. A figure of them was given in the 
‘Proceedings, which the kindness of the Society enables us to reproduce 
(fig. 120, p. 219) on the present occasion. ‘These horns are of large dimen- 
sions, measuring 31 inches in length from the base in a straight line, 
and about 114 inches round their bases. They are apparently those of an 
adult male animal. 
Mr. J.S. Budgett, F.Z.S., who made a zoological expedition to the Gambia 
last year, specially with a view of collecting and observing the river-fishes, has 
favoured us with the following notes on what he saw of the Derbian Eland 
during several visits to the upper districts of the Protectorate :— 
“The Derbian Eland of the Gambia is known to the Mandingoes by the name of 
‘ Jinke-janko.’ It does not seem to be very abundant, and is undoubtedly very shy. 
During my stay on the river, several pairs of horns were found in the possession of 
natives. Two were met with on the south bank, west of M‘Carthy’s Island, and one at 
Koina, on the north bank, 100 miles east of M‘Carthy’s Island. All these had been 
procured in the year 1899. 
“A head of a young female was taken from a carcase floating down the river near 
Yarbutenda by Mr. P. E. Wainewright, the travelling Commissioner of the M‘Carthy’s 
Island district, and presented to me. 
“IT was assured by Mr. Wainewright that the hair on the neck of this animal was 
‘bluish,’ though the animal was a good deal decomposed. 
“JT myself, one day in May 1899, saw a large herd of very large Antelopes in the 
distance near the town of Berreef on the north bank of the Gambia, about 15 miles 
from Yarbutenda. I have little doubt that these were Derbian Elands, though I was 
not fortunate enough to secure one. They were of an extremely light colour all over 
the body, but the head and neck were darker, and the horns appeared rather short and 
straight at the distance of 400 yards.” 
Before concluding our account of the Derbian Eland, it is necessary to 
say a few words respecting the supposed new species of Eland described by 
M. Rochebrune in the ‘ Bulletin’ of the Société Philomathique of Paris 
in 1883, and subsequently in his ‘ Fauna of Senegambia,’ although we are not 
generally willing even to allude to this most untrustworthy publication. So 
far as we can make out, the specimens of this animal promised in the text of 
M. Rochebrune’s work to be sent to the Gallery of the Museum of Paris have 
never reached that Institution, and the only evidence we have, therefore, for 
