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tail ; but in the Grantii the fawn colour stops some three or four 

 inches from the tail and then changes into white. As in the 

 Thomsonii, a dark brown but short line fringes, at a little distance 

 from the tail, each hind-quarter. The horizontal dark brown 

 stripe along the flank, which is a conspicuous characteristic of 

 the Thomsonii, is absent in the Grantii. 



Both sexes have horns. The horns of the buck usually 

 measure about two feet, but may occasionally exceed three 

 feet. They curve upward and backward, gradually diverging 

 from each other ; the direction then changes to upward and 

 forward, and the last three inches bend gracefully forward and 

 inward. The general shape of the horns belongs to the sort 

 known as " lyrate." The last three inches are smooth and ter- 

 minate in a sharp point, the rest is marked, as in the Thomsonii, 

 with "rings." Grantii with the most symmetrical and typical 

 horns are found in the Kilimanjaro region, to which the Kiboko 

 river may be said to belong. It was at the Kiboko river, on my 

 fourth journey, where I shot my finest specimen of a Grantii buck, 

 as regards symmetry of horns. I kept the mask and had the 

 head mounted in London. Subsequently the authorities at the 

 South Kensington Natural History Museum asked me to let 

 their artist take a drawing of it. 



At Lake Nakuru I wounded a Grantii buck in the leg. This 

 led to a tedious pursuit ; for the wounded animal would fre- 

 quently stop, but never let me get nearer than a quarter of a 

 mile. Finally it went up a steep and rocky hill ; I followed, 

 when suddenly it descended again to the plain, leaving me 

 exhausted and out of breath about half-way up the hill. I 

 gazed down at the Grantii with a feeling of disappoint- 

 ment at losing it after all my energetic perseverance, when 

 a novel and unexpected scene was enacted before my eyes. 

 If 1 had been in the plain, I should not have seen this scene, 

 but owing to my position half-way up the hill, I had a capital 

 view of the plain and of what was taking place at the foot 

 of the hill. 



The Grantii had paused, and was so engrossed with looking 

 up in my direction, that it did not observe the danger threaten- 

 ing it from quite a different quarter. I became aware of a 

 large brown animal moving along the foot of the hill towards 

 the Grantii. Neither animal suspected as yet the presence of 

 the other, and neither could see the other, owing to the scattered 



