THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Grant’s gazelles I have met with and shot on the Laikipia plateau and 
both north and south of the Northern Gwas N’yiro River, from Archer’s 
Post to the Lorian Swamp, do not agree in their coloration with the skin 
of the type specimen of g. g. notata which was shot in the Loroghi 
mountains. Rather, I should say, do they belong to the Lado race (g. g. 
bright!) , in which the rump patch completely surrounds the tail. Putting 
aside g. g. robertsi , in which some individuals carry curiously twisted 
aberrant horns, all the geographical races of Grant’s gazelle met with 
outside the central plains of British and German East Africa carry horns 
which lack the beautiful lyrate curve almost always present in those of 
the typical species. There is, however, much individual variation in this 
respect. Personally, I have met with Grant’s gazelles on the Athi and 
Kapiti Plains; in the neighbourhood of Lakes Naivasha, Nakuru and 
Elmenteita; in the Rift Valley near Lake Solai, on the Laikipai plateau, and 
all along the Northern Gwas N’yiro River from Archer’s Post to the 
Lorian Swamp; and everywhere, in spite of local differences in the form 
and average length of their horns and some very slight variations in the 
extent of the white and dark areas of their skins, I always found them 
precisely the same as far as their habits, general appearance and mode of 
life were concerned. 
Like most of their relatives, Grant’s gazelles undoubtedly frequent by 
preference open, treeless plains, but they are also quite at home in open 
bush and amongst stony scrub -covered hills. Along the Northern Gwas 
N’yiro it was very common to see a single oryx bull feeding with a herd 
of Grant’s gazelles, and I have also seen the latter in close company with 
zebras and Coke’s hartebeests. I have never seen Grant’s gazelles 
consorting together in very large herds. During the rutting season each 
full-grown buck lives with as many does as he can collect and hold against 
all rivals, usually from five or six to a dozen, and later on these family 
parties collect together into considerable herds in which there will be 
many full-grown bucks. Old males are often met with alone. Sometimes 
herds consisting entirely of full-grown males may be seen. Grant’s 
gazelle is, I think, rather a grazing than a browsing species, but along 
the Gwas N’yiro, where they frequented open bush country, I found that 
their stomachs often contained leaves and berries as well as grass. I 
believe that on the Serengeti Plains and in other districts to the south of 
the Uganda Railway, Grant’s gazelles are found living in very dry arid 
countries, where surface water is non-existent; but wherever I have myself 
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