Hair on the forehead longer than on the rest of the head, and forming, in old males, a thick and stiff mat; hair on the nape forming a short mane reversed in the direction of the growth, the parting close to the withers. Throat furnished with a flap of loose skin, or dewlap, which bears a beardlike tuft of hairs. Tail reaching to the hocks, covered with short hair, but tufted at the tip. _Female._ Like the male, but slighter in build; without the thick frontal mat of hair; horns longer, thinner, less strongly crested, and usually much less twisted. Mammæ 4. _Range of the Genus._ Africa south of the Sahara, from Senegambia and the White Nile in the north to Cape Colony in the south. The two species of this genus may be shortly diagnosed as follows:— A. Ears narrow and pointed; neck brown like the body. 132. _T. oryx._ B. Ears large and expanded; neck black, with a white posterior margin. 133. _T. derbianus._ [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XCVIII. _Smit del. et lith._ _Hanhart imp._ The Eland. TAUROTRAGUS ORYX. _Published by R. H. Porter._ ] [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XCIX. _Smit del. et lith._ _Hanhart imp._ Livingstones’ Eland. TAUROTRAGUS ORYX LIVINGSTONII. _Published by R. H. Porter._ ] 132. THE ELAND. TAUROTRAGUS ORYX (Pall.). [PLATES XCVIII. & XCIX.] Subspecies _a._ Taurotragus oryx tyficus. _Le Coudous_, =Buffon=, Hist. Nat. xii. p. 357, pl. xlvi. b (horns). _Le Canna_, =Allamand=, in Buff. H. N. (Schneider’s ed.), Suppl. v. p. 16, pl. vii. (1781); =Buff.= H. N. Suppl. vi. p. 116, pl. xii. (1782). _Kaapsche Eland_, =Vosmaer=, Regn. An. tab. xvii. (1783). _Antilope oryx_, =Pallas=, Misc. Zool. p. 9 (1766); =id.= Spic. Zool. i. p. 15 (1767); =Müller=, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 55 (1776); =Erxl.= Syst. R. A. p. 275 (1777); =Zimm.= Spec. Zool. Geogr. p. 539 (1777); =Gatt.= Brev. Zool. i. p. 79 (1780); =Sparrm.= Reise, p. 504, pl. xii. (1784); =id.= Engl. Transl. i. p. 131, & ii. pp. 96 & 204, pl. i. (1786); =Lath. & Davies=, Faunul. Ind. p. 4 (1795); =G. Cuv.= Tabl. Elém. p. 163 (1798); =Licht.= in Förster’s Descr. Anim. p. 33. n. 379 (1844). _Taurotragus oryx_, =Lyd., Selous, & Penrice=, in Ward’s Great and Small Game of Afr. pp. 421–439, pl. xii. figs. 1–3 (1899).