. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. reddish-buff or pale brown, and the white stripes are generally retained throughout life hi the adult anunals. Under these conditions the eland is seen to be striped very much like the kudu, and to have no white spots on the body, only on the cheeks. The Derbian eland is a distmct species, which is very black and very hairy about the head, neck, and fore quarters, and yeUowish-brown (with some white) about the rest of the body, and very distinctly striped. It is, perhaps, the biggest of the elands and the tragelaphs, and is
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. reddish-buff or pale brown, and the white stripes are generally retained throughout life hi the adult anunals. Under these conditions the eland is seen to be striped very much like the kudu, and to have no white spots on the body, only on the cheeks. The Derbian eland is a distmct species, which is very black and very hairy about the head, neck, and fore quarters, and yeUowish-brown (with some white) about the rest of the body, and very distinctly striped. It is, perhaps, the biggest of the elands and the tragelaphs, and is equal in size to a large ox. Some of the more striking genera of modern antelopes appear to have been represented by allied forms hundreds of thousands of years ago in India, Persia, Asia Mmor, and Southern Europe. GazeUes were found m England, and many forms of them were met with in Southern France and Greece. A creature closely resembling * Though Mr. H. H. Baker has since reported the existence of horns in the female kudus of the BaringoDisirict, East Africa. °. JPhofograph by Yolk ,(- ANOA BUFFALO iBos dep 212 Animal Life the springbuck of South Africa once existed in Persia. In India remains have beenfound of primitive cervicaprines. It is said that some of the remains of antelopes inSouthern France would appear to indicate a neotragine form akin to the Germany there are fossils indicating a type of antelope which might be a primitivehippotragine, while something very like the roan antelope is found fossil in creatiues more like the oryxes existed in Greece, Italy, and Southern were also in India types related to the hartebeests. Tragelaphine forms like the kudu have been found fossil in North-Western Indiaand in Algeria, and perhaps in Persia and the Island of Samos. Another creature,which has been named Palceoreas, and was also tragelaphine (very like the dwarf kudu,in fact), has left its remains in Greece, Southern Fra
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