TWENTY TROPHIES FROM AFRICA 



EARLY in 1907, Mr. George L. Harrison, Jr., of Philadelphia, noted 

 the founding of the National Collection, and decided to contribute 

 toward it. His first gift of mounted heads was presently followed by 

 another, and a little later he added to them a highly desirable shipment, from 

 London, of unmounted heads and horns. 



Mr. Harrison has made two trips to the big-game region of East Africa in 

 quest of large game, in both of which he was very successful. His collection 

 contains representations of about sixty species of large mammalia, usually a 

 pair of each. All the mounted heads presented to us by Mr. Harrison (Plate 

 XV) were prepared by Rowland Ward, of London, and are admirably 

 executed. Mr. Ward's men have had so much experience in the mounting of 

 African Antelopes, and they also have in the London Zoological Gardens such 

 fine opportunities to study living specimens, their proficiency is no cause for 

 wonder. Those who are familiar with the group of African antelopes, gazelles, 

 hartebeests, kudus and other forms will realize that the making of two com- 

 plete collections of them is a long and toilsome task, and the possession of a 

 hundred specimens means scarcely more than a beginning. 



The collection presented by Mr. Harrison contains several specimens of 

 prime rarity. The White-Eared Cob, Cobus leucotis (Plate XV, Fig. 3), 

 and the Red-Fronted Gazelle, Gazella rufifrons (Plate XV, Fig. 8), are 

 so rare in America that it is doubtful whether there are ten men in America who 

 not having hunted them can recognize them at sight. The former is hand- 

 somely marked in a pattern of black and white. The Grant Gazelle, repre- 

 sented by a fine pair of heads, is assuredly one of the handsomest of the many 

 species of Gazella. Of the small species, none is more dainty than the little 

 Thomson Gazelle, which, with its large display of horns on a very diminutive 

 head looks proud in the extreme. 



The largest mounted specimen in Mr. Harrison's fine group, is the 

 head of a Common Waterbuck, Cobus ellipsiprymmis ( Plate XV, Fig. 1 ) . 

 A complete enumeration of this valuable donation reveals the following: 



