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with red-fronted gazelle, seen here for the first time. 
Handsome trophies, too, they carry, their annulated 
horns reaching well over a foot in length. 1 In a 
bright yellow coat, with bold lateral bar and snow- 
white underside, the red-front is a conspicuous object so 
soon as within sight. These gazelles are not gregarious, 
but found either singly or in small parties up to half a 
dozen. Though always alert and vigilant, yet they 
cannot be called difficult of access, owing to the 
“advantages’’ (overthrown trees, ant-hills, clumps of bush 
Red-fronted Gazelle. —Kordofan, January 29th, 1913. 
and the like) afforded to the still-hunter. I have never 
myself noticed these forest-gazelles browse on bush or 
scrub as the desert-gazelles habitually do ; nor do they 
show up on the riverside—presumably they drink after 
dark or before dawn. That they do drink regularly is 
evidenced by the number of traps and spring-snares 
devised by the Shilluks to capture them (together with 
oribi and other small buck), and which are set by every 
likely waterhole or stream-head. One habit of theirs is 
1 Both sexes carry horns, but those of the females are short and thin, 
only slightly curved and lacking the annulations of their lords. Thrice 
during January and February I found new-born fawns concealed in the 
deep grass, but never saw them accompanying their mothers at that 
season. Probably these gazelles habitually leave their young alone thus— 
as waterbuck also do—only visiting them once or twice a day, or by night. 
