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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
The typical form of the Thomson gazelle may be known 
by the absence of the dark patch on the nose and by the 
lighter color of the dark eye stripe of the face, which is 
rufous rather than black. The dark pygal stripe on the 
hind quarters is also narrower and less distinctly marked, 
usually being brownish in color. The horns of the Kili¬ 
manjaro race are more parallel in direction and less widely 
spread at the tips than those of nasalis , but they are no 
shorter in length. No flesh measurements of specimens 
are available. The length of fully adult horns is stated by 
Willoughby to be 14 inches in length. The specimen in 
the National Museum, collected by Doctor Abbott at Taveta, 
has horns one inch less than this dimension. Specimens have 
been recorded by Oscar Neumann as far south as Mount 
Gurui in the Irangi district of German East Africa. 
Black-Snouted Thomson Gazelle 
Gazella thomsoni nasalis 
Native Names: Masai, ol-oilin; Kikuyu, enclaratali. 
Gazella thomsoni nasalis Lonnberg, 1908, Mams. Sjostedt Exp. Kilimanjaro, 
p. 46. 
Range. —From the southern and eastern shores of the 
Victoria Nyanza, in German East Africa, northward to Brit¬ 
ish East Africa as far as the southwestern slope of the Lorogi 
Mountains and eastward to the eastern edge of the high¬ 
land region as far as Makindu Station and Mount Kenia. 
The Thomson gazelle inhabiting the highlands of Brit¬ 
ish East Africa was named nasalis by Lonnberg, owing to 
the presence of a black nose spot by which the race may 
be distinguished from the typical form. Upon comparing 
specimens from Kilimanjaro with the colored figure of 
Thomson gazelle in the “ Book of Antelopes,” the differ¬ 
ence in snout coloration was discovered and led to the 
naming of the highland race as new. The describer, how¬ 
ever, assigned his race to northern Uganda and the Lado 
Enclave, under the assumption that such localities repre¬ 
sented the extreme northern range of the gazelle. The 
northern limits, however, fall many miles short of these 
territories, but as the name is based on a colored illustra- 
