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Horns rather like those of G. bennetti on a large scale, little divergent, 
sometimes even quite parallel, evenly but very slightly curved backwards for 
seven-eighths of their length, their tips gently recurved upwards and forwards. 
In length, over the front curve, they attain to about 14 or 15 inches, the 
record being 154. 
Female. Similar to the male, but with the horns rudimentary, much 
smaller than in other African Gazelles; only from 3 to 6 inches in length, of 
about the thickness of a cedar pencil, smooth and unridged, and in direction 
crooked and irregular. 
Hab. Interior of British and German East Africa, from Lake Rudolph 
south to Irangi. 
Horns of Thomson’s Gazelle, 3. 
(Ann. Mag. N.H. (5) xiv. p. 427.) 
The name of Joseph Thomson, the African traveller, will always rank 
among the foremost of those who in the second half of this century have 
striven to open the Dark Continent to civilized man, and have lost their lives 
at an early age by violence or disease in consequence. ‘Thomson was, more- 
over, one of the very few amongst African explorers who had never shed the 
