596 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Serengeti Grant Gazelle 



Gazella granti serengetcz 



Gazella granti serengetcB Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 7, p. 5. 



Range. — Serengeti Plains east of Kilimanjaro. Limits 

 of range not known. 



The type specimens were collected by Doctor W. L. 

 Abbott, near Taveta, in 1888, during his expedition to Kil- 

 imanjaro. No other specimens agreeing with these in 

 color have been examined from East Africa. The Serengeti 

 Grant gazelle is most closely allied in size to the typical 

 granti, from which it differs by having the white rump 

 patch divided by a narrow streak of the cinnamon of the 

 back extending to the base of the tail. In this character it 

 approaches petersi, which, however, has the rump broadly 

 divided by the color of the back and differs by the smaller 

 and more parallel horns. 



The dorsal color in the adult male is mikado-brown 

 paling toward the head and on the sides, where it becomes 

 pinkish-buff. The top of the rump and the hinder border 

 of the thighs are marked by a wide area of pure white, which 

 is continuous with the white basal portion of the tail. The 

 terminal half of the tail is black. The white rump patch is 

 narrow, being one inch wide at the base of the tail as well as 

 on the hinder parts of the thighs. The cinnamon of the back 

 extends on the tail as a narrow dorsal stripe to the black 

 tip, only the basal one-third of the tail being white, leaving 

 the terminal two-thirds black. The white pygal band is well 

 marked, but the dark flank band is absent. The outside of 

 the legs is pinkish-buff, like the sides. The hoofs in front are 

 bordered by tufts of brown hair. The under-parts and the in- 

 side of the legs and the lower throat are silky white. The top 

 of the head and the median line of the snout are cinnamon- 

 rufous. The middle of the snout is marked by a dark sepia 

 blotch. There is a blackish blotch above the eyes. The sides 

 of the face are marked by a broad white band above the eye 

 extending forward to the dark snout spot, and bordered below 

 by an ill-defined, narrow dusky-cinnamon streak from the eye 

 to the muzzle. The orbital area is marked by a bistre-brown 

 supraocular spot extending to the horn bases. The tip of the 



