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other scores of withered hides and whitened skulls 
mark where they have fallen before the grim march 
of civilization. 
With each sportsman granted an allowance of 
twenty zebras, it may not be so long before the zebra 
will be forced to seek the sanctuary of the game 
reserves, which, happily, are large enough to insure 
his escape from extinction. 
The zebra’s chief peculiarity, aside from his 
beautiful markings, is a dog-like bark which is 
much more canine than equine in its sound. The 
zebra’s chief charm is its colt, for there is nothing 
alive that is prettier or more graceful than a young 
zebra a few weeks old. 
The only Grant’s gazelles that I saw were those 
along the railway at Kapiti Plains and Athi Plains. 
This animal is graceful and beautiful, with a splen¬ 
did sweep of horns. With them, and in much 
greater numbers, is the little “Tommy,” or Thomp¬ 
son’s gazelle, a graceful, buoyant, happy, bounding 
little antelope with an ever active tail flirting gaily 
in the sunshine. The Tommy is small, about twice as 
big as a fox terrier, and is of a fawn color. Along 
the lower parts of his sides is a broad white belt, 
along the middle of which runs a bold black stripe. 
The effect is strikingly handsome. 
The impalla is much bigger than the Tommy, 
and he usually travels in large herds of fifty or 
more. It is no uncommon sight to see one buck 
with twenty or thirty females, and it is probably 
due to the fact that hunters try to get the male 
