In The Striped Variety
(Taurotragus Oryx Livingstonianus) Of The Ordinary
South African Eland, The Whole Middle Line Of
The Face
Of the adult bull is uniformly dark, or
even blackish-brown, with a tuft of long bushy
hair on the
Forehead, and no white stripe from
the lower angle of the eye. On the other hand,
in the Sudani form of the giant eland (T.
derbianus gigas), as represented by a bull figured by
Mr. Rothschild in Novitates Zoologicae for 1905,
the upper part of the face has the hair rufous
and shorter than in the ordinary eland, while
from the lower angle of each eye a white stripe
runs inwards and downwards, recalling the white
chevron of the kudu, although the two stripes do
not meet in the middle line.
"In Colonel Patterson's eland (which may well
be designated T. oryx pattersonianus) there is an
incomplete white chevron similar to, although
rather smaller than, the one found in the giant
eland, while only a narrow stripe in the middle
line of the face, above and between the eyes, is
dark-brown, the sides of the forehead being
rufous. On the lower part of the face there is
a larger dark-brown area than in the ordinary
eland, although there is a rufous fawn-coloured
patch on each side above the nostril. In both
the latter respects Colonel Patterson's specimen
recalls the giant eland, although it apparently
lacks the dark white-bordered band on the side
of the neck, characteristic of the latter.
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