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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Merille in the country just south of Mount Marsabit. This 
race inhabits the low thorn-scrub desert between the alti¬ 
tudes of two thousand five hundred and one thousand feet. 
The measurements of an average adult are: head and 
body, along the curve of the back, male 55 inches, female 
53 inches; tail vertebrae, male inches, female io }4 
inches; hind foot from hock to hoof, male i8>^ inches, 
female i 6}4 inches; ear from notch, male 6 }i inches, fe¬ 
male 6 inches. The longest-horned male in the National 
Museum has horns 25 inches in length and a spread of 10 
inches. The widest-spread male horns in a series of fifteen 
measure 12 inches. An average pair is about 22 inches 
in length by 10 inches in spread. The female horns vary 
greatly in a series of seven, in which the longest pair is 
also the widest and measures 14^ by io^i inches. An 
average pair is somewhat shorter and much narrower, being 
12 by 6 inches. 
Bright Grant Gazelle 
Gazella granti brighti 
Gazella granti brighti Thomas, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 805. 
Range. —Northwest shore of Lake Rudolf west to the 
head of the Nile watershed. 
Doctor Donaldson Smith, who collected the specimens 
which led to the discovery of this race, has supplied prac¬ 
tically all of the material upon which our present knowledge 
of the race is based. These include the type and a few 
others from the Magois district, situated near the Nile- 
Rudolf watershed, one hundred miles west of the north 
end of the lake. Some months previous to Donaldson 
Smith’s expedition Major Bright, for whom the race has 
been named, collected a female gazelle from the northwest 
shore of Lake Rudolf, which was later, upon the evidence 
supplied by Smith’s specimens, determined as a member of 
the new race by Oldfield Thomas. In this race the dorsal 
coloration is very light, buffy-fulvous, the dark flank band 
is wanting, and the pygal stripe quite obsolete or but 
faintly indicated by a narrow line of dark hairs. The horns 
are small and extend almost parallel, showing very little 
spread at the tips. 
