GRANT’S GAZELLE 
GAZELLA GRANTI 
O F all the gazelle family, Grant’s gazelle is undoubtedly 
the handsomest, the long, slender, lyrate horns of the 
k males surpassing in length and beauty of form those of 
I any other member of the genus. In size, too, Grant’s 
gazelle surpasses all its congeners, a big male standing 
as much as thirty -four inches at the shoulder and weighing 
from 150 to 160 lb. The horn length in the males may reach as much as 
thirty inches, though anything oyer twenty -eight inches is out of the 
common. The females of Grant’s gazelle also carry very gracefully formed 
horns which sometimes reach a length of sixteen inches. 
The general colour of Grant’s gazelle is a pale fawn with white under - 
parts. There is a white rump patch bordered in front on each side by a 
narrow black line, whilst a streak of reddish brown runs down the front 
of the face to a black spot on the nose. 
There are many local races of Grant’s gazelle, but the differences between 
any one of them and the typical species first met with by the great African 
traveller, Grant, are slight and superficial. 
The typical race {gazella granti typica) ranges over the interior of German 
and British East Africa from Northern Uhehi to beyond the line of the 
Uganda railway. 
The Usukuma race (g. g. robertsi) is met with in the south-western 
portion of British East Africa and the adjoining German territory. In this 
race some of the bucks carry horns which are completely twisted round 
inwards so that their tips are directed backwards and outwards to such 
an extent that the measurement between them often exceeds twenty -five 
inches. The horns of the females are also sometimes twisted outwards, 
though to a lesser degree. 
The Tana race (£. g. petersi ), in which the horns are nearly straight, is 
only met with near the coast of British East Africa, in the valleys of the 
Tana and Lower Sabaki Rivers. 
The Loroghi race ( g . g. notata) is said to be found in the valley of the 
Gwas N’yiro River, and on the Laikipia plateau to the south-west of 
Mount Kenia, as well as on the highlands lying to the south and south- 
eastward of Lake Rudolph. Personally, I think this is a mistake as the 
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