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Identifier: recordsofbiggame00wardro (find matches)
Title: Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Rowland
Subjects: Game Game and game-birds Hunting trophies
Publisher: London (England) : Rowland Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Collection of Major W. Anstruther Gray. The following are female specimens :— Length,straigtit line. Circum-ference. Tip to Tip. Locality. -41 n 13 German East Africa 39i 7 263 ? 36 ih 21:1 ? 35S Ik 15 Angola 35.-\ 8^ 20,fi Zomba Plain, B.C.A Owner. Major von Tiedeniann. Major W. Anstrutlier Gray. P. C. Keytel. C. W. Sharp. Charterhouse Museum (Ur. PercyKendall). Owners measurements 332 RECORDS OF BIG GAME Length,straight line. Circum-ference. Tip to Tip LocaHty. 34 6S N.W. l^hodesia 32; 6S Chobi \allcy 32) 63 53 Snuth Africa 32i 7^ 83 ? 32 8 20 B.C. Africa 29i 73 20 East Africa 28S 7i 13^ Do. 25g 8 8^ B.C. Africa Owner. R. C. Forster. M. C. G reaves-Bagshawe. Abe Bailey. .Mr. Justice Ilopley. Capt. J. S. Brogdeii. v. W. Cjreswolde-Williams. Capt. T. II. Rivers Bulkcley. G. Croniiiton. C—MASHONA RACE (T. oryx selousi). Length. Circuni- .... ,p. , ,. „ straight line. ferenre. 1 i;> tu Tip. Locality. Owner. 9 32 9i 2o\. Mashoiialaiid . . F. C. .Sel ous. LORD DERBYS ELAND 7)7)7)
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Frontlet and Horns of Lord Derbys Eland, from tlic (ianil)ia. LORD DERBYS ELAND (Taurotragus derbianus). In this magnificent species the horns are longer and stouter thanin the typical eland, and the ears broader. Sub-adult bulls have theforehead chestnut, but a chocolate frontal tuft is developed later ; thereis an imperfect white chevron below the eyes, the lower part of theface is dark brown ; a dark collar bordered below with white occupiesthe sides of the neck ; and the back of the neck carries a dark brownmane. The general colour of the hair is chestnut or rufous in thetypical race, but paler in the Sudani race ; the number of white body- 334 RECORDS OF BIG GAME stripes being 14 or 15 in the former and about 10 in the latter. Darkknee-bands are present. Distribution.—The open districts of the interior of Senegambia andGambia, and thence to the Egyptian Sudan. Possibly the speciesmay grade into the last. ^.—SENEGAMBIAN RACE (T, derbianus typicus). Length,straight lineon front

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  • bookyear:1910
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  • bookcentury:1900
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  • booksubject:Game
  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • booksubject:Hunting_trophies
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