Part 38

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.

132. THE ELAND.

TAUROTRAGUS ORYX (Pall.).

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).

Antilope oreas, =Pallas=, Spic. Zool. xii. p. 17 (1777); =Zimm=. Geogr. Ges. ii. p. 109 (1780), iii. p. 269 (1783); =Schreb.= Säug. pl. cclvi. (1784); =Bodd.= Elench. Anim. p. 139 (1785); =Gm.= Linn. S. N. i. p. 190 (1788); =Kerr=, Linn. An. K. p. 317 (1792); =Donnd.= Zool. Beitr. i. p. 639 (1792); =Lath. & Davies=, Faunul. Ind. p. 4 (1795); =Link=, Beytr. Nat. ii. p. 100 (1795); =Bechst.= Syst. Uebers. vierf. Th. ii. p. 642 (1800); =Shaw=, Gen. Zool. pt. 2, p. 319, pl. clxxxv. (1801); =Turt.= Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 115 (1802); =Desm.= N. Dict. d’H. Nat. vi. p. 376 (1803), xxiv. p. 32 (1804); =G. Cuv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. ii. p. 244 (1804); =Thunb.= Mém. Ac. St. Pétersb. iii. p. 314, fig. p. 106 (1811); =Licht.= Reise, i. p. 155 (1811), ii. pp. 39 & 646 (1812); =G. Fisch.= Zoogn. iii. p. 422 (1814); =Afz.= N. Acta Upsal. vii. p. 220 (1815); =G. Cuv.= R. A. i. p. 263 (1817); =Burchell=, List of Quadr. p. 7 (1817); =id.= Travels, i. p. 245 (1822); =Goldf.= Schreb. Säug. v. p. 1153 (1818); Gray, Med. Rep. xv. p. 307 (1821); =Schinz=, Cuv. Thierr. i. p. 396 (1821); =Desmoul.= Dict. Class. d’H. N. i. 447 (1822); =J. B. Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 477 (1829); =Masson=, Cuvier’s R. A. i. p. 317 (1836); =Schinz=, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 449 (1845); =Gieb.= Säug. p. 200 (1853); =Drumm.= Large Game, pp. 137 & 425 (1875); =Huet=, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (4) iv. p 471 (1887).

Capra oreas, =Thunb.= Resa, ii. p. 66 (1789); =id.= Engl. Transl, ii. p. 58 (1793).

Antilope (Bubalis) oreas, =Licht.= Mag. nat. Freunde, vi. p. 153 (1814).

Antilope (Buselaphus) oreas, =Reichenb.= Säug. iii. p. 142 (1845).

Antilope (Boselaphus) oreas, =Desm.= N. Dict. d’H. N. (2) ii. p. 201 (1816); =A. Sm.= S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii. p. 222 (1834); =Less.= Compl. Buff. x. p. 302 (1836); =Wagn.= Sehr. Säug., Suppl. iv. p. 465 (1844).

Antilope (Addax) oreas, =Laurill.= Dict. Univ. d’H. N. p. 620 (1861).

Antilope (Oreas) oreas, =Desm.= Mamm. ii. p. 471 (1822); =Schinz=, Nat. Abbild. Säug. p. 301, pl. cxxvii. (1827); =id.= Mon. Antil. p. 45, pl. 1. (1848); =Less.= N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 181 (1842).

Antilope (Taurotragus) oreas, =Wagn.= Schr. Säug., Suppl. v. p. 439 (1855).

Cerophorus (Boselaphus) oreas, =Blainv.= Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75.

Damalis (Boselaphus) oreas, =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. v. p. 364 (1827).

Damalis oreas, =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. v. p. 355, pl. (1827); =Sund.= K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. lxv. p. 199 (1846); =id.= Hornsch. Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 150; Reprint, p. 74 (1848).

Boselaphus oreas, =Smuts=, En. Mamm. Cap. p. 90 (1832); =Harris=, Wild Anim. S. Afr. p 24, pl. vi. (1840); =Gerv.= Dict. Sci. Nat., Suppl. i. p. 267 (1840); =Jard.= Nat. Libr. xxii., Mamm. p. 177, pl. xix. (1845); =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 155 (1843); =id.= Cat. Ost. B. M. p. 59 (1847); =id.= Knowsl. Menag. pls. i. & ii. (1850); =A. Sm.= Ill. Zool. S. Afr. pls. xl. & xli. (1859); =Fitz.= SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 179 (1869); =Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 245, fig. (1880) (Busephalus).

Cemas alces, =Oken=, Lehrb. Nat. iii. p. 735 (1816)

Damalis canna, =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. iv. p. 357 (1827).

Damalis (Boselaphus) canna, =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. v. p. 365 (1827).

Antilope (Oreas) canna, =Desm.= Mamm. ii. p. 471 (1822); =Less.= Man. Mamm. p. 384 (1827).

Boselaphus canna, =Smuts=, En. Mamm. Cap. p. 91 (1832); =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 155 (1843).

Antilope (Boselaphus) canna, =A. Sm.= S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii. p. 223 (1834).

Antilope (Buselaphus) canna, =Reichenb.= Säug. iii. p. 145 (1845).