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MOUNTED HEADS 



(PLATE XV.) 



WATERBUCK, (Cobus ellipsiprymnus). $ Dinder River, Sudan, at Abyssinian Border. 



February, 1906. (Figure 1.) 

 WHITE-EARED COB, (Cobus leucotis). $ Bahr-el-Zerafe and White Nile. February, 1906. 



(Figure 3.) 



ADDRA GAZELLE, (Gasella ruficollis). <J Bara, Kordofan. January, 1907. (Figure 10.) 

 ADDHA GAZELLE, (Gasella ruficollis). 9 Bara, Kordofan. January, 1907. (Figure 7.) 

 DORCAS GAZELLE, (Gasella dorcas). $ Kordofan. January, 1908. (Figure 5.) 

 GRANT GAZELLE, (Gasella granti). $ Lake Naivasha, B. E. A. August, 1904. (Fig. 4.) 

 GRANT GAZELLE, (Gasella granti). 5 Lake Naivasha, B. E. A. August, 1904. (Fig. Q.) 

 RED-FRONTED GAZELLE, (Gasella rufifrons). $ Bara, near Kordofan. January, 1907. 



(Figure 8.) 

 THOMSON GAZELLE, (Gasella thomsoni). 3 Nairobi, B. E. Africa. January, 1904. 



(Figure 6.) 

 COKE HARTEBEEST, (Eubalis cokei). $ Nairobi, B. E. A. July, 1904. (Figure 2.) 



UNMOUNTED HEADS, ETC. 



ABYSSINIAN BUFFALO, (Bos equinoctialis) . Scalp. 



ABYSSINIAN BUSHBUCK, (Tragelaphus scriptus decula). Skull and horns. 



TORA HARTEBEEST, (Bubalis tora). Skull and horns. 



GRANT GAZELLE, (Gasella granti). Horns. 



IMPALA, (Aepyceros melampus). Scalp. 



DORCAS GAZELLE, (Gasella dorcas). Horns. (Figure 11.) 



REEDBUCK, (Cervicapra arundinum). Skull and horns. 



SOEMMERRING GAZELLE, (Gasella soemmerringi) . Skull, horns and scalp. 



LION. Two skulls. 



THE NORTON GIFT 



MR. John W. Norton, of New York City and Cazenovia, success- 

 ful hunter in Africa and in North America, has presented to the Col- 

 lection a valuable series of horns, skulls and head skins of African 

 big game, all in a fine state of preservation, and also three mounted heads. 

 Although the gift was offered with some hesitation, because the African heads 

 are unmounted, both the rarity and the general excellence of the specimens 

 justified their acceptance with gratitude. A gift which contains a Greater 

 Kudu, an Eland, a Baker Roan Antelope and a Crawshay Waterbuck is to be 

 regai-ded with unqualified appreciation. 



Regarding the future of this gift, we are in an unusual dilemma. The 

 skulls are all in so good a state of preservation that it seems a pity to lose their 

 zoological value by mounting the head skins over them. On the other hand, 

 the head skins are entirely too fine to be kept unmounted! If funds become 

 available, we may yet cut the Gordion knot by having the horns removed from 



