NO. 7 ANTELOPES FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA — HELLER 5 



bordered below by an ill-defined narrow dusky cinnamon streak from 

 the eye to the muzzle ; orbital area white with a bister brown supra- 

 ocular spot extending- to horn base; tip of snout pale pinkish buff, the 

 lips and chin white; forethroat white like the chin, the midthroat 

 pinkish-cinnamon like the nape; ears pinkish-cinnamon, bordered at 

 the tip by narrow border of bister, inside and spot at notch white. 



Measurements. — In the flesh (of No. 162013, old male; type not 

 measured) : head and body, 1,480 mm. ; tail, 275 ; hindfoot, 475 ; ear, 

 160. Skull: condylo-basal length, 268; greatest width, 115; nasals, 

 71 x 35 ; gnathion to orbit, 139; gnathion to PM 1 , 66; length of pre- 

 maxillse, 90; gnathion to nasals, 75; length of upper tooth row, yy. 

 Aged male, the premolars and the first molar worn down to the gums, 

 the central fossettes completely worn away. Length of horns along 

 curve, 25 inches ; greatest spread, 18*4 inches. 



Remarks. — Four adult male skins are in the collection from the 

 Athi Plains and the Naivasha district. The dark lateral band is 

 wanting in all except one, where it is faintly indicated far back on the 

 flank. In the immature male, however, the dark flank band is well 

 marked. A single female is in the collection and in this specimen the 

 flank band and the dark pygal stripe are very pronounced. 



GAZELLA GRANTI SERENGETI, new subspecies 

 Serengeti Grant Gazelle 



Type from Taveta, western edge of the Serengeti Plains, Kiliman- 

 jaro district, British East Africa ; adult male, Cat. No. — — , U. S. 



34703 

 National Museum ; shot by Dr. W. L. Abbott ; exact date not known ; 

 original number, 23. 



Characters. — Most closely allied in size to typical Gazella granti 

 from which it. differs by having the white rump patch divided by a 

 narrow streak of the cinnamon of the back extending onto the base 

 of the tail ; in this character it approaches Gazella petersi, which 

 however has the rump broadly divided by the color of the back and 

 differs by smaller and more parallel horns and smaller bodily size. 



Coloration. — Dorsal color mikado-brown paling toward head and 

 on sides where it becomes pinkish-buff; top of rump and hinder bor- 

 der of thighs marked by a wide area of pure white which is con- 

 tinuous with the white basal portion of tail, terminal half of tail 

 black ; white rump patch narrow, only one inch wide at base of tail, 

 and on hinderparts of thighs ; brown of back extending on tail as a 

 narrow dorsal, stripe to the black tip; only basal one-third of tail 

 white ; terminal two-thirds black ; black pygal band well marked ; no 



