THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
similar to those of the typical Isabelline gazelle, those of the males being 
crooked sharply inwards; but it is distinguished from that species by its 
darker body colour, and by the presence of a well-defined black flank band, 
as in Thomson’s gazelle. 
The Red -fronted gazelle {gazella rufifrons) is an inhabitant of Senegal 
and Gambia, but further eastwards it is represented by two very nearly 
allied species or geographical races, the first of which ( g . r. salmi ) ranges 
through Kordofan, and is also found in the country watered by the Blue 
Nile and its tributaries, while the second (g. r. albonota) is an inhabitant of 
the eastern side of the Upper Nile from Gondokoro to Bor. In many 
respects this last-named race of red-fronted gazelle much resembles 
Thomson’s gazelle, especially in the shape of the horns, which are not 
distinguishable from horns of that species; and it possibly, therefore, 
forms a connecting link between that common East African gazelle and its 
distant cousin of Senegambia. 
Lastly, we have the Rufous gazelle {gazella rufina) % a species concerning 
which practically nothing is known, as it has never been seen in the flesh 
by a European sportsman or naturalist, but was named from a flat skin 
purchased by Sir Edmund Loder in Algeria. Although apparently a larger 
animal than the typical red -fronted gazelle or either of its sub -races, it 
seems to be nearly allied to these well-known species. 
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