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ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA 
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country on the El Bogoi side. 1 In the afternoon I took a stroll 
into the open and shot a brace of Grant’s gazelle. I found that 
they differed from those on the other side of the range (and 
everywhere else I had been) in having longer hair and dark 
bands on the sides, while the shade of the back is also deeper 
than in the common kind. I brought home a skin of this 
variety and it is now in the British Museum. I am indebted to 
Mr. Oldfield Thomas for the following description of this variety 
which has appeared in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History , November 1897. 
Gazella grantii, notata, subsp. n. 
Similar in all essential characters to the typical G. grantii, but dis¬ 
tinguished by the greater length, breadth and intensity of both the dark 
and light lateral bands. The former is nearly black, the latter pale buff, 
and succeeded above posteriorly by a second dark band, lighter than the 
main lateral band, darker than the centre of the back. Pygal band black 
and strongly defined. 
Habitat, W. slope of the Lorogi Mountains, British East Africa. 
Collected and presented by Arthur H. Neumann, Esq. 
This handsome Gazelle has since been obtained in the same region by 
Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish. 
I remained here from 13th to 19th October. I never 
succeeded in coming up with elephants, which seemed to 
have been thoroughly scared by Squareface’s escapade, so that 
his small cow probably cost me the loss of several pairs of 
tusks. We found plenty of evidence of their frequenting the 
district in numbers, and once or twice came upon fresh spoor, 
but only of travelling parties. Nevertheless I much enjoyed 
my stay in this beautiful district. Its character is totally 
distinct from that of the other side of the range, and the game 
is also mainly of different species. Just at the foot of the 
mountains, where the forest and grass land meet, is a charming 
1 Having no instruments to determine altitudes, I can only make guesses ; but I 
should judge the respective heights to be about as follows :—Country at foot of range 
on eastern side, about 4000 feet; Lorogi Mountains, from 7000 to 8000 feet; plains on 
western side, 5500 feet. 
