GRANT'S GAZELLE 



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Skull-S and Ilonis of Grant's Gazelle (male and female), from A. H. Neumann's specimens. 



GEANT'S GAZELLE (Gazella granti). 



With this handsome species we reach the last group of the 

 genus Gazella, which includes species, for the most part of large size, 

 characterised by the fawn colour of the back being invaded to a greater 

 or less degree by the white of the rump. In the present animal the 

 fawn of the back is cut off from the tail, which is included in the white 

 rump-patch, and there is a dark streak on the hinder border of each side 

 of this patch. On the neck and back the hair has a peculiar wavy 

 appearance recalling that of watered silk. Height at shoulder about 

 38 inches ; weight of male from 150 to 170 lbs., when cleaned about 

 1 1 5 lbs. 



Distribution. — East Africa, throughout Masailand, and round Kili- 

 manjaro, north of Baringo, and around Mount Elgon and the Suk 

 country ; generally on open grass-lands. Two well-defined local 

 races of this species may be recognised. First, the typical race 

 {G. granti typica), of the interior of East Africa, in which the dark 



