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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



flank-bands are either wanting, or are present, in young specimens 

 below the light flank-band. Secondly, the northern race {G. granti 

 notata), of Northern British East Africa, in which dark bands are 

 present both above and below the light band, behind which they 

 unite with each other. Although described by O. Thomas in 1897 

 as a local race, the latter form was raised by him to the rank of a 

 distinct species in the following year. 



F. J. Jackson sa!ys they are found " throughout the Masai 

 country, up in Turkwel and Suk country. Those from Njemps, 

 Turkwel and Suk are smaller than those from Kilimanjaro, 

 Naivasha, Athi plains, etc. In the Njemp district a 20-inch head 

 is good." 



Measurements of 4 male specimens shot by the last-named sportsman. 



1 This vpas the old buck of a herd in virhich there were three or four other bucks. It was in 

 good condition. I saw a lot of other bucks, but none had horns more than 20 inches. 



