608 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



inches. A large series of specimens of this race have been 

 examined in the National Museum, from the Kapiti and 

 Athi Plains, the Rift Valley in the vicinity of Lake Naivasha, 

 the Laikipia Plains north of Mount Kenia, and the Loita 

 Plains and Southern Guaso Nyiro River district. 



Uganda Red Fronted Gazelle 



Gazella rufijrons albonota 



Native Name: Dinka, el hamra. 



Gazella rufijrons albonota Rothschild, 1903, Nov. Zool., vol. V, p. 480. 



Range. — From the northern frontier of Uganda, in the 

 vicinity of Gondokoro, northward through the eastern drain- 

 age area of the Nile as far as the Sobat River, and eastward 

 to the crest of the Nile watershed. 



The Uganda race of the red-fronted gazelle was de- 

 scribed by Walter Rothschild in 1903 from specimens col- 

 lected near the Soudan station of Mongolia. In characters 

 it differs from the northern Soudan race, salmi, by more 

 contrasted head markings, the nose and lower half of the 

 central face stripe being black mixed with rufous instead of 

 buff, and the horns are wider-spread and more recurved 

 backward with the points turned inward more. The general 

 coloration resembles that of Gazella thomso7ii, but it differs 

 by having the dark flank band bordered below by a buffy 

 band which separates it from the white of the under-parts. 

 The body size and length of horns are similar to G. thomsoni. 

 Horns of males average 12 inches in length along the curve 

 with a spread at the tips of 6 inches. 



The recorded specimens practically all come from the 

 vicinity of Mongolia. Thomas, however, records a spec- 

 imen of G. thomsoni collected by Donaldson Smith at a 

 point ninety miles east of Mongolia, at the crest of the 

 Nile-Lake Rudolf watershed, which may well be the Roths- 

 child race of rufifrons. The Thomson gazelle is not known 

 to occur in the Rudolf basin at all, its northern limits 

 not extending beyond Lake Baringo and the Lorogi Moun- 

 tains. The specimen recorded by Thomas is, moreover, well 

 within the range of Gazella rufifrons albonota. 



