ANTILOPIN.-E 95 



dark pygal band well developed, but flank-band absent ; 

 general colour cinnamon - brown. In the female (one 

 specimen) the fawn of the back is not produced backwards 

 to divide the rump-patch, and a dark flank- band is developed. 

 JSTo specimen in collection. 



I. — Gazella grant! petersi. 



Gazella granti, Peters, Monatsber. AJc. Berlin, 1879, p. 832, pi. v, 

 nee BrooJce. 



Gazella petersi, Gilnther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xiv, 

 p. 428, 1884 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 238, 1893, Great 

 and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 1899 ; A. H. Neumann, 

 Elephant-Hunting in E. Africa, pp. 9 and 10, 1898; Sclater 

 and Thomas, Book of Ant eloj) e s, \ol. iii, p. 187, 1898; Heller, 

 Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, no. 7, p. 5, 1913. 



Gazella granti var. gelidjiensis, Noack, Zool. Garten, vol. xxviii, 

 p. 277, 1887. 



Gazella granti petersi, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 805 ; 

 O. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1906, p. 243 ; Lydekker, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 262, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 270, 1910, ed. 7, p. 268, 1914. 



Sala (Swahili). 



Typical locality the neighbourhood of the mouth of the 

 Tana, East Africa. 



Type the skull figured by Peters ; probably in the Berlin 

 Museum. 



Size rather smaller than in typical race (shoulder-height 

 about 33 inches), and colour darker than in any of the other 

 forms ; white rump-patch relatively small, and divided 

 superiorly by a backward prolongation of the body-colour 

 in the form of a broad band extending on to and along the 

 upper surface of the tail ; the lateral prolongation of the 

 rump-patch narrower and intruding to a smaller extent into 

 the body-colour than in typical race, so as scarcely, if at all, 

 to overhang the dark pygal band. Horns shorter and less 

 divergent than in typical granti, and skull somewhat 

 smaller, with a rather narrower nasal opening. Good horns 

 measure from 20 to 23f inches in length, with a basal girth 

 of from 5j to 6|, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 5j to 

 11 inches. 



The range includes the coast districts of East Africa from 

 Mombasa northwards to beyond the Tana. 



