602 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



The typical form of the Thomson gazelle may be known 

 by the absence of the dark patch on the nose and by the 

 lighter color of the dark eye stripe of the face, which is 

 rufous rather than black. The dark pygal stripe on the 

 hind quarters is also narrower and less distinctly marked, 

 usually being brownish in color. The horns of the Kili- 

 manjaro race are more parallel in direction and less widely 

 spread at the tips than those of nasalis^ but they are no 

 shorter in length. No flesh measurements of specimens 

 are available. The length of fully adult horns is stated by 

 Willoughby to be 14 inches in length. The specimen in 

 the National Museum, collected by Doctor Abbott at Taveta, 

 has horns one inch less than this dimension. Specimens have 

 been recorded by Oscar Neumann as far south as Mount 

 Gurui in the Irangi district of German East Africa. 



Black-Snouted Thomson Gazelle 



Gazella thomsoni nasalis 



Native Names: Masai, ol-oilin; Kikuyu, enclaratali. 



Gazella thomsoni nasalis Lonnberg, 1908, Mams. Sjostedt Exp. Kilimanjaro, 

 p. 46. 



Range. — From the southern and eastern shores of the 

 Victoria Nyanza, in German East Africa, northward to Brit- 

 ish East Africa as far as the southwestern slope of the Lorogi 

 Mountains and eastward to the eastern edge of the high- 

 land region as far as Makindu Station and Mount Kenia. 



The Thomson gazelle inhabiting the highlands of Brit- 

 ish East Africa was named nasalis by Lonnberg, owing to 

 the presence of a black nose spot by which the race may 

 be distinguished from the typical form. Upon comparing 

 specimens from Kilimanjaro with the colored figure of 

 Thomson gazelle in the "Book of Antelopes," the differ- 

 ence in snout coloration was discovered and led to the 

 naming of the highland race as new. The describer, how- 

 ever, assigned his race to northern Uganda and the Lado 

 Enclave, under the assumption that such localities repre- 

 sented the extreme northern range of the gazelle. The 

 northern limits, however, fall many miles short of these 

 territories, but as the name is based on a colored illustra- 



