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taken from a sketch made by “ M. le Dr. Colin” of a head of this animal 
obtained in the forest of Kitain Senegal. In this figure the whole head of the 
animal is represented as of a nearly uniform slaty grey, with the exception of 
a patch of reddish hair on the forehead at the base of the horns and a black 
patch in the middle of the nose. These are certainly striking differences, if 
we could trust them as being accurate, but we do not know how far 
M. le Dr. Colin’s sketch was correctly made, nor what alterations the copier 
of it may have introduced into M. Rochebrune’s plate. We cannot admit 
the existence of the supposed new species upon such unsatisfactory evidence. 
The authorities of the Liverpool Museum have most kindly sent up to us 
for examination the specimens of the Derbian Eland now in the Derby 
Museum, Liverpool, which are probably those from which the original figures 
in the ‘Gleanings’ were drawn by Waterhouse Hawkins. The frontlet is 
apparently that of an adult specimen, as will be seen from our view of it 
(fig. 121, p. 221) prepared by Mr. Groénvold. The horns measure 303 inches 
in length from base to tip, the tips are nearly 23 inches apart in a straight 
line. The two flat skins which accompany it are without heads, and the 
legs have been cut off at the knees. 
In the British Museum there are frontlets of one female and two male 
specimens of the Derbian Eland, obtained at the Gambia by the same 
collector (Whitfield) and presented by Lord Derby. In the same collection 
there is a flat skin brought home by Winwood Reade, and the head of a female, 
dried with the skin on, obtained by Dr. Percy Rendall on the Gambia. 
The material available not being, in our opinion, sufficient for the prepara- 
tion of a correct figure of the Derbian Eland, we have thought it best, as 
our illustration of this Antelope, to copy, on a reduced scale (Plate C.), 
the original figures of the Derbian Eland drawn by Waterhouse Hawkins for 
plate xxv. of the ‘ Gleanings.’ 
We admit, however, that these are by no means satisfactory, for the head 
and legs of the specimens from which the figures were taken are absent, and 
the details as to these parts in the figures were probably filled up from 
conjecture. Wolf's figure of the head of Reade’s specimen in the ‘ Proceedings’ 
is, no doubt, more accurate, but in this example the legs are likewise 
deficient. 
April, 1900. 
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