1878.] SIR V. BROOKE ON GAZELLA GRANTI. 723 



first vertebra, which has considerable length and breadth, is marked 

 on its under surface by a prominent ridge which does not occur in 

 the above-mentioned Indian toad. 



The transverse processes of the sacral vertebra are dilated as in 

 Bufo. 



13. On Gazella granti. By Sir Victor BrookeTN 

 Bart., F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived June 17, 1878.] 



Some years ago (vide P. Z. S. 1872, p. 601. pi. xli.) I had the 

 pleasure of bringing before the Society's notice a species of Gazella 

 which I supposed to be new, and upon which I conferred provi- 

 sionally the name Gazella granti. My original description of the 

 species was based on small water-colour sketches of the head and flat 

 skins of a male and female obtained by Capt. Speke and Col. Grant 

 in Ugogo, which were executed by them previous to the dispatch of 

 the specimens to England. When writing my first notice, I believed 

 that these specimens had been lost, there being no record of their 

 arrival at the Society's rooms, where Capt. Speke had expressed a 

 wish that they should be kept until his return ; but Col. Grant has 

 since informed me that they reached England safely and are still 

 preserved along with some other objects of natural history collected 

 by Capt. Speke, in Capt. Speke's father's house. 



In 1875 Dr. Kirk presented to the Society (vide P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 527, pi. lix.) the first living specimen of the species which 

 had ever been exhibited in Europe. Unfortunately the animal, 

 a very young female, arrived in very delicate health, and died 

 shortly afterwards. It is now preserved in the British Museum 

 (spec. 75. 12. 29. 4), whither it was transferred after Mr. Sclater's 

 exhibition of it to the Society. It was not, however, till towards 

 the end of last year that the first specimen of an adult male of this 

 magnificent gazelle came uuder my personal observation. The 

 animal was shot by Mr. Charles Arkwright, about 8 miles from the 

 village of Tubugwe, which is situated, as nearly as Mr. Arkwright 

 could ascertain, about 50 miles N.E. of Ugogo. It was one of 

 a herd composed of about 20 individuals, amongst which there 

 was one other old male. Mr. Arkwright has most kindly intrusted 

 his valuable trophy to my care ; so that I am enabled to exhibit it 

 to the Society this evening, and to base upon it and upon the young 

 female in the British Museum a fuller and more accurate description 

 of the species than was possible at the time of my original notice. 



Gazella granti. 



1863. Antilope scemmerringii! Speke, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 3, sp. 15. 



1872. Gazella granti, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 601, pi. xli. 



1873. Gazella granti, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 550. 

 1875. Gazella granti, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 535. 



General colour very rich fawn tinged with purple, the neck and 



