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Gazelles and Dwarf Antelopes 



Now and again one finds them living amicably and 

 sociably with other kinds of animals. For days I have 

 observed a single buck in company with a female gerenuk 

 gazelle and an old bull. 



1 have never noticed these dwarf gazelles on the lett 

 bank of the Pangani River, but have frequently found them 

 elsewhere. Near Nakuro and Elmenteita Lake, in the 

 British district, I have seen them in thousands. In 

 August I found newly born calves, and at the same time 

 very small embryos. The dwarf gazelles are a great 

 ornament to the Salt and Natron districts in the far Nyika. 

 It is to be hoped that the velt will long afford a refuge 

 both to them and to the beautitul Grant's gazelle. 



There are two other similar kinds of gazelle found 

 in Africa, which are amone the most remarkable of the 

 species to be seen in these desert places. Imagine an 

 extremely slender and graceful miniature horned giraffe, 

 coloured a uniform brown, given to raising itself on 

 its hind-legs like a goat, so as to eat the leaves of 

 bushes and trees. The males are adorned with peculiarly 

 shaped horns ; the females are without. One kind, 

 Clarke's gazelle [Aiuniordorcas clarkei). has so far only 

 been found in quite confined portions of Somaliland. 

 The other species, which is very similar, the gerenuk 

 gazelle {Lithocranius walleri,), has a far more extensive 

 range, and, according to my own observations, is to be 

 found far away in the velt of German East Africa. 

 This gazelle, known by the Waswahili under the name of 

 njoggo-nyogga, by the Masai as nanjab, and the Wando- 

 robo as mode, was first definitely located by me in 



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