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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
posteriorly to the upper lips are white; the nostrils them¬ 
selves seal-brown. The whiskers are black. The area above 
the eye is white with a dark blotch just below the horn base 
and the lower eyelid is white also. The occipital portion of 
the head and the back of the ears are ochraceous-buff. The 
terminal half of the ears is dark seal-brown and the inside 
of the ears is white with a broad seal-brown bar extending 
from the posterior border to the centre. 
The female shot by Kermit Roosevelt is colored like the 
male, but differs distinctly in lacking the great bushy mane 
of the nape, this structure being represented by a narrow 
median line of black hair. The bush on the forehead is 
quite wanting and the ground-color of the body is more 
reddish, being ochraceous-buff without the vinaceous tint 
except on the lower sides. The dorsal mane of black is 
continued along the entire length to the root of the tail, and 
is crossed by the white side stripes which number fourteen 
on the left side and fifteen on the right. The greater 
number of stripes found in this female is not a sexual color 
difference but merely an individual variation. The black 
blotch on the front of the fetlocks is more distinctly marked 
than in the male and the mane on the throat is shorter-haired, 
the dewlap being hardly evident. 
The coloration of the calf is not known, but it is without 
doubt similar to that of the female, as is the case in its near 
relative, the common eland. The younger male shot by 
Kermit Roosevelt is quite identical in color and mane 
characters with the female, although its horns were longer 
than those of the old bull. It is an animal just reaching 
maturity, the milk molars having only recently been shed. 
As age advances in the male, the mane on the neck is 
extended, working its way gradually down the sides of the 
neck; the body hair becomes thinner and more vinaceous; 
the stripes less distinct, some of them disappearing entirely; 
and the black bar in front of the fetlock grows fainter and 
smaller. The chief color differences of this species from 
the common eland are the white bar on the lower throat, 
the two white cheek spots, the great black mane on the 
nape and shoulders, the black bar on the front of the hocks, 
and the broad, black-tipped ears with a black bar on their 
inner side. Such color differences are merely a reversion to 
