THE SABLE 



brow of the hill. We raced over the top to get in 

 another shot, and found him stone dead. 



He was a fine beast, jet-black in coat with white 

 markings on the face, red-brown ears, and horns 

 sweeping up and back scimitar fashion. He stood 

 four feet and six inches at the shoulder, and his horns 

 were second best ever shot in British East Africa. 

 This beast has been described by Heller as a new 

 subspecies, and named Rooseveltii. His determina- 

 tion was based upon an immature buck and a doe 

 shot by Kermit Roosevelt. The determination of 

 subspecies on so slight evidence seems to me un- 

 scientific in the extreme. While the immature 

 males do exhibit the general brown tone mainly 

 relied on by Mr. Heller, the mature buck differs 

 in no essential from the type sable. I find the 

 alleged subspecies is not accepted by European 

 scientists. 



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