238 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. 



country on the El Bogoi side.^ In the afternoon I took a stroll 

 into the open and shot a brace of Grant's gazelle. I found that 

 they differed from those on the other side of the range (and 

 everywhere else I had been) in having longer hair and dark 

 bands on the sides, while the shade of the back is also deeper 

 than in the common kind. I brought home a skin of this 

 variety and it is now in the British Museum. I am indebted to 

 Mr. Oldfield Thomas for the following description of this variety 

 which has appeared in the Annals and JSIagazine of Natural 

 History, November 1897. 



Gazella grantii, notata, subsp. n. 



Similar in all essential characters to the typical G. grajitn, but dis- 

 tinguished by the greater length, breadth and intensity of both the dark 

 and Hght lateral bands. The former is nearly black, the latter pale buff, 

 and succeeded above posteriorly by a second dark band, lighter than the 

 main lateral band, darker than the centre of the back. Pygal band black 

 and strongly defined. 



Habitat, W. slope of the Lorogi Mountains, British East Africa. 



Collected and presented by Arthur H. Neumann, Esq. 



This handsome Gazelle has since been obtained in the same region by 

 Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish. 



I remained here from 13th to 19th October. I never 

 succeeded in coming up with elephants, which seemed to 

 have been thoroughly scared by Squareface's escapade, so that 

 his small cow probably cost me the loss of several pairs of 

 tusks. We found plenty of evidence of their frequenting the 

 district in numbers, and once or twice came upon fresh spoor, 

 but only of travelling parties. Nevertheless I much enjoyed 

 my stay in this beautiful district. Its character is totally 

 distinct from that of the other side of the range, and the game 

 is also mainly of different species. Just at the foot of the 

 mountains, where the forest and grass land meet, is a charming 



^ Having no instruments to determine altitudes, I can only make guesses ; but I 

 should judge the respective heights to be about as follows : — Country at foot of range 

 on eastern side, about 4000 feet ; Lorogi Mountains, from 7000 to 8000 feet ; plains on 

 western side, 5500 feet. 



