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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
snout is pale pinkish-buff. The lips and the chin are white. 
The forethroat is white like the chin and the midthroat pink¬ 
ish-cinnamon like the nape. The ear is pinkish-cinnamon, 
bordered at the tip by bistre, and the inside and the spot at 
the base are white. The female resembles the male in the 
darkness of the dorsal coloration. The dark lateral band 
is present as in roosevelti , but it is decidedly less distinctly 
marked or obsolete anteriorly near the shoulders. 
No flesh measurements of this race are available. The 
horns of the two adult males are very much alike in shape 
and size. They diverge gradually toward their tips, but 
are not bowed out or lyrate in shape, and closely resemble 
horns of the smaller species petersi. In length along the 
curve they measure 21^ and 20^ inches, and in greatest 
spread and 12 inches, respectively. The horns of the 
two females are quite similar in shape to the males, but much 
smaller, measuring in length 14 and 12^ inches, and in 
spread 6^ and 6 inches, respectively. 
This race approaches the smaller gazelle of the coast 
district, petersi , really closely in horn characters and some¬ 
what in the color characters of the rump. It is, moreover, 
found occupying an intermediate territory. Peters ga¬ 
zelle is said to occur near Voi, some seventy miles east of 
Taveta, in the low desert flanking the Serengeti Plains, and 
it is quite probable that a series of specimens from this 
intermediate territory would exhibit intermediate characters. 
Peters gazelle occupies a distributional area distinct from 
that of any of the races of Grant gazelle, but adjacent to 
some of them, and has every appearance of being one of 
these races, though the lack of specimens prevents us from 
determining the exact status of this form. 
Peters Gazelle 
Gazella petersi 
Native Name: Swahili, sola. 
Gazella petersi Gunther, 1884, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist ., ser. 5, vol. XIV, p. 428. 
Range. —From the Taru Desert northward to the 
mouth of the Tana River and thence northeast along the 
coast through the Jubaland Province. 
