173 
blood of a native, nor even, we believe, during his many journeys, fired a 
shot in self-defence. Thomson’s name has been worthily associated with the 
present Gazelle, of which he was the discoverer during his expedition through 
Masailand to Lake Victoria in 1883 and 1884, and of which he first brought 
back specimens to Europe. 
Thomson, as we are informed by Dr. Gunther, who described this Gazelle 
as Gazella thomsoni in June 1884 from two frontlets presented by Thomson 
to the British Museum, met with it on his way up the country from the 
plains near Kilimanjaro to Lake Baringo, at various elevations under 
6000 feet. Dr. Giinther, we may remark, in his description and figure of these 
horns fell into a not unnatural error in treating the more slender pair (fig. 74 a, 
p. 172) as those of a female. But, as we have already stated, the horns are 
always abnormally small in the doe of this Gazelle, and sometimes, it is said, 
altogether wanting. ‘The slenderer pair of horns shown in Dr. Giinther’s 
figures, which we have been kindly allowed to reproduce in this work, are, 
like the stouter pair, doubtless those of a male. 
In his volume ‘Through Masai-land,’ Thomson does not appear to have 
made any reference to this Gazelle, except by repeating the figures of the 
horns (p. 536) already published by Dr. Giinther. Thomson had intended, 
we believe, to put his notes on the animals and plants collected and observed 
during this expedition into an Appendix, which, however, from pressure of 
other matters, was never written. 
After Thomson himself, the next earliest information obtained concerning 
this Gazelle appears to be that collected by Sir John Willoughby’s hunting- 
party in 1886-87. In the Appendix to ‘ Kast-Africa and its Big Game,’ 
Mr. Hunter writes of it as follows :— 
“This Gazelle, discovered by Mr. J. Thomson during his trip through Masai-land in 
1883, was found in large numbers in the plains in the Masai country to the south-west 
of Kilimanjaro, and we also came across it on the borders of the Masai country at the 
south end of Kyulu mountain, but it is not met with on the south side of the mountain 
between these two points. I have seen these Gazelles mixing with Gazella granti, the 
female of which, at long range, though larger, is easily mistaken for a male G. thomsoni, 
both having the broad black stripe on the side. They are generally seen in small herds 
of one male to about ten females.” 
> 
In the first volume of ‘ Big Game Shooting,’ of the Badminton Library, 
Mr. F. J. Jackson, than whom no one can be better qualified to speak of 
Vou. WE 2A 
