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(Oi mines GAZE LIE. 
GAZELLA PETERSI, Gtyru. 
Gazella granti, Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1879, p. 832, pl. v. (skull). 
Gazella petersi, Ginth. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) xiv. p. 428 (1884) ; Lyd. Horns and 
Hoofs, p. 238 (1893) ; Jackson, in Badm. Big Game Shooting, 1. p. 299 (1894) ; 
A. Neumann, Elephant-Hunting in HE. Africa, pp. 9,10 (figs., horns, d 2) (1898). 
Gazella grantii var. gelidjiensis, Noack, Zool. Gart. xxviii. p. 277 (1887). 
Vernacutar Name :—Sala (Swahili) (Fischer). 
Size large; height at withers about 33 inches. General colour and 
markings practically identical with those of the last species, Gazella granti, 
with the exception that the white rump-patch is of much less extent. ‘This 
patch, which in G. granti is very broad, and projects prominently forward on 
each side, overhanging the dark pygal band, and passes across above the 
tail, separating that organ entirely from the dark dorsal colour, is in G. peters? 
divided above into two portions by an extension of the body-colour which 
runs down on to and along the top of the tail. Laterally the white is much 
narrower, and encroaches much less on the body-colour above, scarcely or not 
at all overhanging the pygal band. 
Skull rather smaller than in G. granti, and the nasal opening rather 
narrower. Basal length in a male 9:3 inches, greatest breadth 4:2, muzzle 
to orbit 5°4. 
Horns similar to those of G. granti, but smaller and more uniformly 
parallel, never widely divergent above. Horns of female about two-thirds 
the length of those of the male, slender and comparatively straight. 
Hab. Coast-districts of British East Africa, from Mombasa northwards to 
beyond the Tana. 
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