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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
inches. A large series of specimens of this race have been 
examined in the National Museum, from the Kapiti and 
Athi Plains, the Rift Valley in the vicinity of Lake Naivasha, 
the Laikipia Plains north of Mount Kenia, and the Loita 
Plains and Southern Guaso Nyiro River district. 
Uganda Red Fronted Gazelle 
Gazella rufifrons albonota 
Native Name: Dinka, el hamra. 
Gazella rufifrons albonota Rothschild, 1903, Nov. Zool., vol. V, p. 480. 
Range. —From the northern frontier of Uganda, in the 
vicinity of Gondokoro, northward through the eastern drain¬ 
age area of the Nile as far as the Sobat River, and eastward 
to the crest of the Nile watershed. 
The Uganda race of the red-fronted gazelle was de¬ 
scribed by Walter Rothschild in 1903 from specimens col¬ 
lected near the Soudan station of Mongolia. In characters 
it differs from the northern Soudan race, salmi , by more 
contrasted head markings, the nose and lower half of the 
central face stripe being black mixed with rufous instead of 
buff, and the horns are wider-spread and more recurved 
backward with the points turned inward more. The general 
coloration resembles that of Gazella thomsoni , but it differs 
by having the dark flank band bordered below by a buffy 
band which separates it from the white of the under-parts. 
The body size and length of horns are similar to G. thomsoni. 
Horns of males average 12 inches in length along the curve 
with a spread at the tips of 6 inches. 
The recorded specimens practically all come from the 
vicinity of Mongolia. Thomas, however, records a spec¬ 
imen of G. thomsoni collected by Donaldson Smith at a 
point ninety miles east of Mongolia, at the crest of the 
Nile-Lake Rudolf watershed, which may well be the Roths¬ 
child race of rufifrons. The Thomson gazelle is not known 
to occur in the Rudolf basin at all, its northern limits 
not extending beyond Lake Baringo and the Lorogi Moun¬ 
tains. The specimen recorded by Thomas is, moreover, well 
within the range of Gazella rufifrons albonota . 
