ROBERTS'S GAZELLE 



GAZELLA GRANTI ROBERTSI 



THERE has been discovered a new 

 species, or perhaps variation would be 

 the correct term for it, of Grant's 

 gazelle in the last few months by Mr. 

 Russell Roberts, designated as above. I have 

 been lucky enough to obtain a head on the 

 Anglo-German Boundary Commission, very small 

 it is true, but showing the characteristics partly. 



He is exactly the same as the Grant's "of 

 commerce " in colouring, but the difference is in 

 the head. The horns start straight like an 

 ordinary Grant's, but almost at once begin twist- 

 ing inwards, so that the tips bend backwards. 



In an oldish beast the spread of the horns is 

 enormous, and is quite ugly, and in the ordinary 

 Grant's abnormal. My head shows the twist, but 

 one of the photographs of five of the best heads 

 of this animal, shot on the Commission, which 

 I insert, shows the extraordinary spread of its 

 horns, more especially that of the middle one. 

 I hear that there is a head of a Robertsi in the 

 German station Sherati, on the Lake, with a 

 bigger and much flatter head than the one depicted. 



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