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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
and the body color is more reddish. The body stripes are 
more numerous and distinct and the dark stripe on the 
belly and above the knee is more pronounced. Often the 
snout is marked by conspicuous white chevrons extending 
diagonally in front of the eyes. The adult female is like the 
immature male in color, but usually brighter. The body 
color is ochraceous-orange crossed by twelve white stripes 
extending from the very distinct black dorsal stripe half-way 
down on the sides. The under-parts and the belly are marked 
as in the male. The nape mane is reduced to a narrow line 
of wood-brown hair which merges on the withers into the 
broad black dorsal stripe. The forehead is without a mat 
of long hair or white chevron stripes, and the snout is 
buffy-drab, not blackish as in the male. The throat has 
a well-developed dewlap covered by long blackish and buffy 
hairs. Newly born young have the color pattern of the adult 
female minutely reproduced, and are furnished with a dew¬ 
lap on the throat. The snout has a dark blotch as in the 
male. 
Flesh measurements of the Zambesi eland are not avail¬ 
able for comparison, but, judging by the size of the skulls, the 
East African race is fully as large as the southern one. The 
flesh measurements of a large bull shot by Colonel Roosevelt 
on the Loita Plains were: head and body along curve of back, 
106 inches; tail, 32 inches; hind foot, 29 inches; ear, io>^ 
inches. An adult female measures 4 inches less in body, 
1 inch less in length of tail, inches less in hind foot, and H 
inch less in length of ear. The largest male in the National 
Museum has a skull length of 19F2 inches. The average 
skull in a series of twelve is 18 inches in length, and 8 inches 
in greatest breadth. The female skulls average 17 inches 
in length. The horns in the male are very much heavier 
or greater in diameter than in the female, but they do not 
average any longer. The longest-horned specimen in a series 
of eight from British East Africa in the National Museum is 
27^ inches straight or 35 inches measured on the curve. The 
average horn length in the male is 25 inches. All old males 
have the tips of the horns greatly worn, and shorter by almost 
a foot than those of the younger males. Ward’s record for 
East Africa is a specimen shot by Jackson measuring 31^6 
inches straight. The spread at the tips is usually about 12 
