GRANT’S GAZELLE 267 
Skull and Horns of Grant’s Gazelle. 
GRANT'S GAZELLE (Gazella granti). 
Suara, Swahili. Ngolz, Nodorobo. 
This handsome species is the first of a group of gazelles of 
large size, and characterised by the fawn-colour of the back being 
encroached upon to a greater or less degree by the white of the rump. 
In this species the horns are very long and typically lyrate ; there 
is a dark streak on the front border of each side of the rump-patch ; 
the middle face-streak is chestnut, with a black nose-spot ; and the tail, 
with the exception of the black crest, is either wholly white, or sandy 
above and white beneath. On the neck and back the hair has a 
peculiar wavy appearance, recalling that of watered silk. Height at 
shoulder from about 32 to 34 inches; weight of male from about 150 
to 165 lbs., when cleaned about 115 Ibs. 
Distribution.—East Africa ; throughout Masailand, Kilimanjaro, north 
of Baringo, Mount Elgon, and the Suk country; generally on 
open grass-lands. In G. grantz typica of the interior of East Africa, 
the flank-bands are faint in the adult, and the fawn area does not 
intrude to any extent on the white of the rump-patch. In the 
Usukuma race, G. g. vobertsi, the horns show a peculiar outward 
twist, so that their points are far apart. In the Tana G. g. peters7 
the stature is smaller, the horns are nearly straight, and the fawn 
