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from broadly lyrate to parallel in shape, and are heavily 
ringed for most of their length. The adult male is usually 
without the dark flank band characteristic of the female, 
but both sexes have a dark pygal stripe bordering the white 
rump patch. The general dorsal color ranges from cinnamon 
to fulvous. The young are striped like the female but 
have the white of the rump much less extensive. The skull 
is distinguishable from that of tkomsoni by its shallower 
anteorbital fossa, larger nasal-lachrymal sinus, and the 
spatulate shape of the nasal process of the maxillary bone. 
This, the largest of the genus, is not only the most 
beautiful gazelle but one of the most beautiful of African 
antelopes. It is about the size of a white-tail deer. The 
long, lyre-shaped horns of the buck, the proud, graceful 
carriage of the head and neck, the supple and dainty 
strength of body and limbs, the delicacy of coloring, all 
combine to make the animal a pleasure to look upon. The 
many herds of these large gazelles which are scattered over 
the Athi and Kapiti Plains form one of the chief attractions 
to the traveller who rides across the long stretches of level 
or rolling grass-lands. In the Sotik country the horns of 
its bucks are even longer, with a more divergent bend. 
On the lower levels, near the coast, they are shorter. The 
does everywhere carry smaller horns than the bucks, less 
beautifully shaped. 
All gazelles are beasts of the open plains, avoiding 
forests. They are most at home on the reaches of grass¬ 
land where there is not a shrub or a tree, but have no 
objection to thinly scattered thorns and are often found 
grazing or resting among them. They are primarily graz¬ 
ers, but occasionally become browsers; the stomach of one 
of the raineyi variety, killed on the Northern Guaso 
