594 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Merille in the country just south of Mount Marsabit. This 

 race inhabits the low thorn-scrub desert between the alti- 

 tudes of two thousand five hundred and one thousand feet. 

 The measurements of an average adult are: head and 

 body, along the curve of the back, male 55 inches, female 

 53 inches; tail vertebrae, male ii}4 inches, female 10^ 

 inches; hind foot from hock to hoof, male i8>^ inches, 

 female \6}4 inches; ear from notch, male 6}i inches, fe- 

 male 6 inches. The longest-horned male in the National 

 Museum has horns 25 inches in length and a spread of loy^ 

 inches. The widest-spread male horns in a series of fifteen 

 measure 12 inches. An average pair is about 22 inches 

 in length by 10 inches in spread. The female horns vary 

 greatly in a series of seven, in which the longest pair is 

 also the widest and measures 14^ by io3/8 inches. An 

 average pair is somewhat shorter and much narrower, being 

 12 by 6 inches. 



Bright Grant Gazelle 



Gazella granti brighti 



Gazella granti brighti Thomas, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 805. 



Range. — Northwest shore of Lake Rudolf west to the 

 head of the Nile watershed. 



Doctor Donaldson Smith, who collected the specimens 

 which led to the discovery of this race, has supplied prac- 

 tically all of the material upon which our present knowledge 

 of the race is based. These include the type and a few 

 others from the Magois district, situated near the Nile- 

 Rudolf watershed, one hundred miles west of the north 

 end of the lake. Some months previous to Donaldson 

 Smith's expedition Major Bright, for whom the race has 

 been named, collected a female gazelle from the northwest 

 shore of Lake Rudolf, which was later, upon the evidence 

 supplied by Smith's specimens, determined as a member of 

 the new race by Oldfield Thomas. In this race the dorsal 

 coloration is very light, buffy-fulvous, the dark flank band 

 is wanting, and the pygal stripe quite obsolete or but 

 faintly indicated by a narrow line of dark hairs. The horns 

 are small and extend almost parallel, showing very little 

 spread at the tips. 



