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dark flank band ; outside of legs pinkish-buff like .the sides ; hoofs in 

 front bordered by hair brown. Underparts and inside of legs and 

 lower throat silky white ; top of head and median line of snout cinna- 

 mon-rufous, the middle of snout marked by a clove-brown blotch ; 

 grayish hair about horn bases and a blackish area above the eyes, the 

 sides of face marked by a broad white band above eye extending for- 

 ward to the dark snout spot, bordered below by an ill-defined narrow 

 dusky-cinnamon streak from the eye to the muzzle ; orbital area white 

 with a bister brown supraocular 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 ; ear pinkish- 

 cinnamon, bordered at. the tip by narrow border of bister, inside and 

 spot at notch white. 



Measurements. — No flesh measurements available. Skull : con- 

 dylo-basal length, 257 mm.; greatest width, 108; nasals, 60x30; 

 gnathion to orbit, 137 ; length of premaxillae, 83 ; gnathion to PM\ 61 ; 

 gnathion to nasals, 74 ; length of upper tooth row, 80. Age, old ; pre- 

 molars much worn. Length of horns along curve, 20}A inches; 

 greatest spread of horns, g l / 2 inches. 



Remarks. — Three skins are in the collection collected by Dr. Abbott 

 near Taveta. The two males agree in having the rump patch divided 

 by a narrow line of the dorsal color. The female is without the 

 divided rump patch and with the dark flank band and pygal stripe 

 very wide and deep in color. 



GAZELLA GRANTI RAINEYI, new subspecies 

 Rainey Grant Gazelle 



Type from the Isiola River, Northern Guaso Nyiro, British East 

 Africa; adult male, Cat. No. 182016, U. S. National Museum; shot 

 by Paul J. Rainey, June 30, 191 1 ; original number, 2318. 



Characters. — Resembling Gazella granti brighti most closely but 

 differing chiefly by the presence of a dark pygal band or border to 

 the white flank patch ; dorsal color darker and size of horns usually 

 greater and more widespread at tips. Differs from Gazella granti 

 lacuum by darker coloration and the presence in the adult female of a 

 dark flank band. From Gazella granti rooscvelti it differs by the 

 decidedly smaller and more parallel horns and by the smaller and 

 lighter colored dark nose spot. 



Coloration. — Dorsal color light vinaceous-cinnamon paling toward 

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

 hinder border of thighs marked by a wide area of pure white whicl 



