Those of the latter are usually larger and slenderer, but the skin of the female is not so handsomely marked as that of the male.
It is hard to get near an eland, but as the bull is nearly six feet high at the shoulders it is not especially difficult to hit him at three hundred yards or more.

The one I shot was three hundred and sixty-five yards away and carried beautiful horns, twenty-four and one-quarter inches in length.

The head of the great bull eland makes a wonderfully imposing trophy when placed in your baronial halls.
In the foregoing list of antelopes I have tried to tell a little about the types of that class of animal that I met in my African travels--in all, sixteen species of antelope.

My chief excuse for doing it is to enable people at home to know the difference between a topi and a sun hat and between a sing-sing and a cob.

The names of many of the African antelope family are strange and confusing, so that it is little wonder that they mystify people in America.