598 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



snout Is pale pinkish-buff. The Ups and the chin are white. 

 The forethroat is white hke the chin and the midthroat pink- 

 ish-cinnamon hke the nape. The ear is pinkish-cinnamon, 

 bordered at the tip by bistre, and the inside and the spot at 

 the base are white. The female resembles the male in the 

 darkness of the dorsal coloration. The dark lateral band 

 is present as in roosevelti, but it is decidedly less distinctly 

 marked or obsolete anteriorly near the shoulders. 



No flesh measurements of this race are available. The 

 horns of the two adult males are very much alike in shape 

 and size. They diverge gradually toward their tips, but 

 are not bowed out or lyrate in shape, and closely resemble 

 horns of the smaller species petersi. In length along the 

 curve they measure 2i}i and 20>< inches, and in greatest 

 spread 9^ and 12 inches, respectively. The horns of the 

 two females are quite similar in shape to the males, but much 

 smaller, measuring in length 14 and 12^ inches, and in 

 spread 6^ and 6 inches, respectively. 



This race approaches the smaller gazelle of the coast 

 district, petersi, really closely in horn characters and some- 

 what in the color characters of the rump. It is, moreover, 

 found occupying an intermediate territory. Peters ga- 

 zelle is said to occur near Voi, some seventy miles east of 

 Taveta, in the low desert flanking the Serengeti Plains, and 

 it is quite probable that a series of specimens from this 

 intermediate territory would exhibit intermediate characters. 

 Peters gazelle occupies a distributional area distinct from 

 that of any of the races of Grant gazelle, but adjacent to 

 some of them, and has every appearance of being one of 

 these races, though the lack of specimens prevents us from 

 determining the exact status of this form. 



Peters Gazelle 



Gazella petersi 



Native Name: Swahili, sala. 



Gazella petersi Giinther, 1884, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. XIV, p. 428. 



Range. — From the Taru Desert northward to the 

 mouth of the Tana River and thence northeast along the 

 coast through the Jubaland Province. 



