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knowledge, based upon the accumulation of specimens, 

 advanced. The original locality thus becomes the home of 

 the typical or first-described race, Gazella granti granti, and 

 the other described races, such as robertsi, brighti, notata, 

 roosevelti, etc., occupy adjacent districts, and these areas 

 as a whole represent the range of the species or Grant 

 gazelle in its entirety. 



Considerable difficulty has been encountered in map- 

 ping the ranges of the various species and races owing to 

 the vastness of the area covered and the lack of records 

 for many of the species over much of the area. The dis- 

 tribution of the game animals in the territory through which 

 the writers have travelled, particularly that of the highland 

 region of British East Africa, is well known, but beyond 

 this territory the distribution in a detailed way is unknown, 

 and it has been necessary to map it somewhat approx- 

 imately. The actual spots from which specimens have 

 been collected or recorded are marked on the maps by 

 numerals referring to each species and race, and these rep- 

 resent faithfully the real data upon which the mapped 

 areas are based. The interest in the large game mammals 

 in equatorial Africa is so keen among sportsmen that at 

 the present time their distribution is better known than 

 any other group of animals to be found in the same ter- 

 ritory. Owing to the present fairly satisfactory state of 

 our knowledge of the distribution of the game animals it 

 has been thought worth while to attempt to show their 

 ranges by means of maps. It is hoped that these maps will 

 lead to a clearer understanding of the distribution, and form 

 a basis upon which to build in greater detail. In cases 

 where the data have been insufficient or where a single 



