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entire forehead covered by a heavy mat of long hair, with¬ 
out any chevrons on the snout. Old bulls of both races 
retain a few of the body stripes even in old age. The black 
stripe on the chest and belly of pattersonianus is usually lack¬ 
ing in livingstonii. Specimens of the South African eland 
from the Kalahari Desert and Cape Colony, however, lack 
the body stripes even in immaturity in males, as is well 
shown by specimens in the National Museum. The skulls 
from East Africa exceed in length those from the Zambesi, 
but are less in breadth. We may describe patter sonianus as 
a longer and more slender-headed race with darker-colored 
mane and body. 
The body color of an old male is usually ochraceous-buff, 
the hair often being so thin that the dark skin shows con¬ 
spicuously and gives it a bluish-gray appearance. The body 
is crossed by two or three faint white transverse stripes. The 
nape of neck is covered by a broad mane of long wood- 
brown hair extending half-way down the sides and ending 
at the withers in a stripe which is continued on the back to 
the rump. The tail is thin-haired and is buff above and 
white below, with a tuft of long black hair at the tip. The 
under-parts have a broad seal-brown stripe from the chest 
to the middle of the belly. The belly and the sides of the 
body are light buff. The forelegs are ochraceous-buff in front, 
and white behind, with a broad black bar above and behind 
the knee. The border of the hoofs and the back of the pas¬ 
terns are seal-brown. The hind legs are like the fore in color 
but lack the black band above the knee on the posterior side. 
The forehead is covered by an immense bush of thick hair, 
three inches in length and cinnamon-brown in color, bounded 
behind and above the eye by a black stripe and in front on the 
snout by buffy bases to the hair. The snout is seal-brown to 
the lips. The upper lips and chin are whitish and the chin is 
bordered behind by an indistinct drab bar. The sides of the 
head and the orbital region are buffy-drab. The ears on the 
back are buff, the tips seal-brown, and the inside and the base 
whitish. The base of the throat has a dewlap or bell covered 
by a short mane of ochraceous hair. Younger males lack the 
bush on the head, which is usually represented by a median tuft 
of long hair bounded in front by white chevrons; the nape mane 
is also greatly reduced in extent and confined to a narrow line 
