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by that of the white rhinoceros, which has the same range in 
the Bahr el Ghazal, but is widely isolated from its very 
close ally the southern white rhinoceros of South Africa. 
The giant eland was discovered by Martin Theodore von 
Heuglin during his travels in the White Nile region in 1863. 
He described the species from a pair of horns collected 
somewhere near the present position of Wau, probably 
east of it. Later, in 1874, Doctor Georg Schweinfurth pub¬ 
lished the account of his travels in the Bahr-el-Ghazal 
region in which he referred to the eland occurring about the 
Lehssy River and the village of Sabby in the same vicinity. 
During the last fifteen years specimens have been shot in the 
Bahr el Ghazal by various sportsmen, notably by Colonel 
Sargeant Boardman, Captain Haynes, Leo Franco, Cap¬ 
tain H. R. Headlan, “Bimbashi” Collins, and Prince E. 
Demidoff. More recently Colonel Roosevelt and his son 
Kermit shot three specimens in the Lado Enclave, and very 
recently F. C. Selous secured a female near Wau. The 
species, in 1894, was confounded with the common eland 
by Sclater and Thomas in the “ Book of Antelopes,” no 
skins at that time being preserved in any museum, the 
horns alone being represented. In April, 1905, Mr. A. L. 
Butler published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Soci¬ 
ety color descriptions of the two specimens shot by “ Bim- 
bashi” Collins, and pointed out the close agreement of these 
with the Derby eland. Later in the same year the Honor¬ 
able Walter Rothschild published in Novitates Zoologicae 
a colored figure of a mounted head in the Cairo Turf Club 
with a note indicating the close relationship of this form 
and derbianus. 
The giant eland has the regular eland horns, although 
very much magnified, but otherwise it resembles a bongo 
almost as much as it does the common eland. It frequents 
open country, covered by a growth of thorn scrub, its haunts 
being much more like those of the common eland than like 
those of the bongo; but it breaks the higher branches with 
its horns like a bongo, something which we happen never 
