THE SELOUS COLLECTION, 51 



Subfamily ANTILOPIN^. 



THOMSON'S GAZELLE. 



Gazella thomsoni thomsoni. 



Gazella thomsoni, Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xiv. p. 427, 



1884. 

 Gazella thomsoni thomsoni, Roosevelt and Heller, Life-historiea of African 



Game Animals, vol. ii. p. 601, 1915. 



Size medium, height at shoulder about 25 inches. Horns long 

 and nearly parallel, good horns measure from ] 5 to 16J inches in 

 length. No dark patch on nose, a feature which distinguishes the 

 typical race from nasalis. 



The only specimen of the Kilimanjaro thomsoni in the Collection 

 is one obtained iir 1915-16. The horns of this head are almost 

 parallel; measurements: — length on front curve 12?; circumfer- 

 ence 3|- ; spread from tip to tip 2|. 



Typical locality, Kilimanjaro District ; range extends from 

 Kilimanjaro southwards *to the Irangi District in Tanganyika 

 Territory. 



276 —19. 7. 15. 310. 1915-16. Taita and TaVeta District, Kenya 

 Colony. 



BLACK-SNOUTED THOMSON'S GAZELLE. 



Gazella thomsoni nasalis. 



Gazella thomsoni nasalis, Lonnberg, Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. 

 p. 46, 1908. 



Closely related to the typical race, distinguished by the horns 

 being less parallel and the presence of a dark blackish spot on nose. 

 Lydekker and Blaine * considered the Thomson Gazelle from the 

 highlands of Kenya Colony as identical with the typical form fi-om 

 Kilimanjaro. There has evidently been a mistake made, as the 

 authors state that " the absence of the nose-spot, upon which this 

 supposed race was founded, does not appear to be a constant 

 character of the Gazelles of this district." The race was founded 



* Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. iii. pp. 83 and 85, 1914. 



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