WILD ANIMALS AT A SALT-POOL 



XXV 

 Gazelles and Dwarf Antelopes 



TH E two species of gazelles met with most frequently 

 in Masai-Nyika are Grant's gazelle (Gaze/la 

 granti] and Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni], the latter 

 of which is very similar in colouring to the former, but much 

 smaller. 



The large and beautiful Grant's gazelle, whose bucks 

 have wonderful tails and whose females have beautiful 

 long horns, was discovered and made known in 1 860 by 

 Speke and Grant on their way to the Victoria Nyanza, 

 then discovered by them. Thomson's gazelle (the 

 "goilin" of the Masai) owes its discovery in 1883 to 

 the English traveller of that name. 



The stately Grant's gazelle is found everywhere in 

 Masai-land in large herds, very seldom alone. Sometimes 

 the herds are composed of only females or only bucks, 

 sometimes of a number of females with only one or a few 

 bucks. 



In the summer months I often found single female 

 Grant's gazelles on large grass-pastures, and I was then 



