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when one of these bucks has been killed, the others accompanying it will 

 stand and allow of a second shot being had. This is quite allowable when 

 meat is wanted, as it generally is for the hungry men of a marching 

 caravan in Africa, the animals themselves, too, being so numerous. In 

 some cases if you sit down and wait patiently as near as you can con- 

 veniently get to granti without frightening them away, but where they 

 can see you, they will come gradually towards you in an inquisitive manner, 

 as if trying to find out what you are. Natives rarely succeed in capturing 

 this antelope ; it is too wary for them. 



At the western base of the Lorogi Mountains I met with what I 

 believed to be a local variety of Gazella granti, distinguished by longer 

 hair and more distinct markings. It has been described as a sub-species 

 by Mr. Oldfield Thomas in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 from adult skins brought home by me; 1 but I still regard its distinctive 

 characteristics as being caused solely by peculiar local climatic conditions. 



Mr. F. J. Jackson has kindly given me some notes of weights and 

 measurements of granti, carefully taken and recorded by him in the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Naivasha, which I am very fortunate in being 

 able to quote: — Male, weight, 158 lbs. to 167 lbs.; height, 3 feet i 

 inch to 3 feet 2^ inches; length, 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 10 inches. 

 Female, weight, 106 lbs. to 1 1 1 lbs. ; height, 2 feet 8i inches to 2 feet 

 9^ inches ; length, 4 feet 1 1 A inches to 5 feet 4^ inches. He found that 

 about Baringo they ran considerably smaller, no doubt owing to the poorer 

 pasturage there. A H- Neumann. 



Grant's Gazelle — Northern Race {Gazella granti notata) 



The sub-species referred to by Mr. Neumann, at the end of the 

 preceding article, a specimen skin of which he presented to the National 



