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with red-fronted gazelle, seen here for the first time. 

 Handsome trophies, too, they carry, their annulated 

 horns reaching- well over a foot in length. 1 In a 

 bright yellow coat, with bold lateral bar and snow- 

 white underside, the red-front is a conspicuous object so 

 soon as within sight. These gazelles are not gregarious, 

 but found either singly or in small parties up to half a 

 dozen. Though always alert and vigilant, yet they 

 cannot be called difficult of access, owing to the 

 "advantages" (overthrown trees, ant-hills, clumps of bush 



RED-FRONTED GAZELLE. Kordofan, January 2gth, 1913. 



and the like) afforded to the still-hunter. I have never 

 myself noticed these forest-gazelles browse on bush or 

 scrub as the desert-gazelles habitually do ; nor do they 

 show up on the riverside presumably they drink after 

 dark or before dawn. That they do drink regularly is 

 evidenced by the number of traps and spring-snares 

 devised by the Shilluks to capture them (together with 

 oribi and other small buck), and which are set by every 

 likely waterhole or stream-head. One habit of theirs is 



1 Both sexes carry horns, but those of the females are short and thin, 

 only slightly curved and lacking the annulations of their lords. Thrice 

 during January and February I found new-born fawns concealed in the 

 deep grass, but never saw them accompanying their mothers at that 

 season. Probably these gazelles habitually leave their young alone thus 

 as waterbuck also do only visiting them once or twice a day, or by night. 



