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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Serengeti Grant Gazelle 
Gazella granti serengeti 
Gazella granti serengetce Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., voi. 61, No. 7, p. 5. 
Range. —Serengeti Plains east of Kilimanjaro. Limits 
of range not known. 
The type specimens were collected by Doctor W. L. 
Abbott, near Taveta, in 1888, during his expedition to Kil¬ 
imanjaro. No other specimens agreeing with these in 
color have been examined from East Africa. The Serengeti 
Grant gazelle is most closely allied in size to the typical 
granti , from which it differs by having the white rump 
patch divided by a narrow streak of the cinnamon of the 
back extending to the base of the tail. In this character it 
approaches petersi , which, however, has the rump broadly 
divided by the color of the back and differs by the smaller 
and more parallel horns. 
The dorsal color in the adult male is mikado-brown 
paling toward the head and on the sides, where it becomes 
pinkish-buff. The top of the rump and the hinder border 
of the thighs are marked by a wide area of pure white, which 
is continuous with the white basal portion of the tail. The 
terminal half of the tail is black. The white rump patch is 
narrow, being one inch wide at the base of the tail as well as 
on the hinder parts of the thighs. The cinnamon of the back 
extends on the tail as a narrow dorsal stripe to the black 
tip, only the basal one-third of the tail being white, leaving 
the terminal two-thirds black. The white pygal band is well 
marked, but the dark flank band is absent. The outside of 
the legs is pinkish-buff, like the sides. The hoofs in front are 
bordered by tufts of brown hair. The under-parts and the in¬ 
side of the legs and the lower throat are silky white. The top 
of the head and the median line of the snout are cinnamon- 
rufous. The middle of the snout is marked by a dark sepia 
blotch. There is a blackish blotch above the eyes. The sides 
of the face are marked by a broad white band above the eye 
extending forward to the dark snout spot, and bordered below 
by an ill-defined, narrow dusky-cinnamon streak from the eye 
to the muzzle. The orbital area is marked by a bistre-brown 
supraocular spot extending to the horn bases. The tip of the 
