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GREAT GAME OF THE WORLD. 



GRANT'S GAZELLE (Gazella granti). 

 [Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., P.Z.S. 1878, p. 723.] 



General colour, very rich fawn tinged with purple, the neck and back 

 in certain lights mottled like watered silk ; this pattern is gained 

 by indefinitely bounded bands of darker hair. Central facial band 

 darker than the neck and body and strongly tinged with rufous on 

 the forehead ; a large black patch above the nostrils ; large facial 

 streaks very definite, white ; dark facial streak black, extending 

 from the base of the horn to the eye, which it almost encircles, 

 and from the eye to above the corners of the mouth ; posterior to 

 the eye is a small w'hite patch ; external surface of the ear-conchs 

 streaked with dark brown ; dark lateral and pygal bands distinctly 

 marked, the former grizzled, the latter very broad and jet-black; 

 lower two thirds of the tail black, the upper third white ; the 

 tip of the tail is tufted ; for the remainder of its length, it is fur- 

 nished with coarse hairs which project at right angles to its axis; 

 chin, lower surface of the head, breast, belly, inside of limbs, and 



