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B. Pygal band wanting (except in one race of 

 soemmerringi). 



a. Horns shorter, hooked inwards at tips ; 



tail-tip black G. soemmerringi. 



b. Horns still shorter, hooked forwards 



and upwards at tips ; tail wholly 



white, or with fawn tip G. dama. 



XXIV. GAZELLA (X ANGER) GEAXTI. 



Antilope soemmerringii (?), Grant, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 3, nee 

 Cretzsclimar. 



Gazella granti, Brool-e, Proc. Zod. Soc. 1872, p. 601, pi. xli, 1873, 

 p. 550, 1878, p. 723; Sclater, ibid. 1875, p. 527, pi. lix; Pagen- 

 stacher, Jahrb. Mus. Hamburg, vol. ii, p. 38, 1884 ; Johnston, 

 Kilimanjaro Exped. p. 394, 1886 ; Hunter, Willoughby s Big 

 Game of E. Africa, p. 289, 1889 ; Flower and LydcH-er, Study 

 of Mammals, p. 342, 1891 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 104, 



1892, ed. 6, p. 267, 1910, ed. 7, p, 265, 1914 ; True, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. vol. XV, p. 473, 1892 ; Lydel-ker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 236, 



1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 1899, Game Animals 

 of Africa, p. 260, 1908 ; Lugard, E. Africa, vol. i, p. 534, 1893 ; 

 Jackson, Big-Game Shooting (Badminton Libr.), vol. i, p. 298, 



1894, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 453; Matschie, Sdugethiere 

 Deutsch-OstafriJi-a, p. 131, 1895 ; Donaldson Smith, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1895, p. 868 ; A. H. Neumann, Elejjhant-Huntitig in E. 

 Africa, pp. 9 and 10, 1898 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of 

 Antelopes, \o\. iii, p. 179, pi. Ixix, 1898; Powell-Cotton, TJnhnoiun 

 Africa, p. 573, 1904 ; 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 1906, p. 240 ; Lonnberg, Sjostedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. 

 p. 46, 1908, K. Svensha Vet.-Ah. Handl. vol. xlviii, no. 5, p. 166, 

 1912 ; Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, no. 7, p. 7, 1913. 



Gacella granii. Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. {Field Mus. Zool. 



Pub. vol. viii) p. 78, 1907. 

 Matschiea granti, Knottnerus-Meyer, Arch. Naturgcsch. vol. Ixxiii, 



pt. 1, p. 100, 1907. 



Type of Matschiea. 



Typical locality western Kinyeiiye, Ugogo, German East 

 Africa. 



Xo type specimen, the species having been named on 

 the evidence of Speke's notes and sketclies. 



Shoulder-height reaching at least 34 inches. Horns 

 longer than in any other gazelle, evenly but slightly curved 

 backwards, and bending somewhat forwards at tips, degree 

 of divergence variable, basal section elliptical ; general 

 colour sandy fawn, with a more or less marked tendency 

 to rufous ; forehead and median face-stripe richer fawn, 

 approaching rufous, with a brownish nose-spot ; lateral dark 



