PETERS'S GAZELLE 



GAZELLA PETERSI 



SWAHILI : SWALLAH. MASAI I NGOLDII 



WE now come to this rather rarer animal, 

 which can be broadly described as a 

 very near relation to Grant's gazelle. 

 Formerly it was only known in the 

 coast districts north of Mombasa, through Lamu 

 and Witu as far as Kismayu, with here and there 

 an outlying herd or two in certain parts further 

 inland. I, in common with a few other sports- 

 men, have found it in a comparatively new place, 

 on Laikipia. The specimen I secured was pro- 

 nounced by competent individuals to be an un- 

 doubted Petersi, but on account of its being a 

 very good head and the fact of the skin having 

 had to be destroyed introduces a certain doubt 

 into the minds of others. 



He is a little bit like a "Tommy," and very 

 much like a Grant's gazelle, but rather smaller 

 than the latter. There is also a difference in the 

 colour of the tail and adjacent parts, the Grant 

 being white at the base, which colour also sur- 

 rounds the part where it is set on, whereas in 

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