WHO'S WHO IN JUNGLELAND 247 



other scores of withered hides and whitened skulls 

 mark where they have fallen before the grim march 

 of civilization. 



With each sportsman granted an allowance of 

 twenty zebras, it may not be so long before the zebra 

 will be forced to seek the sanctuary of the game 

 reserves, which, happily, are large enough to insure 

 his escape from extinction. 



The zebra's chief peculiarity, aside from his 

 beautiful markings, is a dog-like bark which is 

 much more canine than equine in its sound. The 

 zebra's chief charm is its colt, for there is nothing 

 alive that is prettier or more graceful than a young 

 zebra a few weeks old. 



The only Grant's gazelles that I saw were those 

 along the railway at Kapiti Plains and Athi Plains. 

 This animal is graceful and beautiful, with a splen- 

 did sweep of horns. With them, and in much 

 greater numbers, is the little "Tommy," or Thomp- 

 son's gazelle, a graceful, buoyant, happy, bounding 

 little antelope with an ever active tail flirting gaily 

 in the sunshine. The Tommy is small, about twice as 

 big as a fox terrier, and is of a fawn color. Along 

 the lower parts of his sides is a broad white belt, 

 along the middle of which runs a bold black stripe. 

 The effect is strikingly handsome. 



The impalla is much bigger than the Tommy, 

 and he usually travels in large herds of fifty or 

 more. It is no uncommon sight to see one buck 

 with twenty or thirty females, and it is probably 

 due to the fact that hunters try to get the male 



