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Show 1900.] FROM NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA. 805 The reasons that have induced me to consider this exceedingly handsome Reedbuck as the true C. bohor of Riippell have been detailed in a separate paper on the subject1. These are the first specimens with exact localities that have been brought to England. The horns of the finest head measure 15 inches in length by 5| inches in basal circumference. 20. CERVICAPRA CHANLERI Rothsch. a, b. o* $ . South end of Lake Stephanie, 20 Nov., 1899. (130, 131.) 21. GAZELLA GRANTI BRIGHTI, subsp. n. a. 6. 160 miles E. of Lado, 28 Jan., 1900. (132.) b. S . 150 miles E. of Lado, 6 Feb., 1900. (137.) c. 6 . 150 miles E. of Lado, 5° 20' N „ 34° 5' E., 6 Feb., 1900. Type of the subspecies. (138.) d, e. ? $ • 200 miles E. of Lado, 20 Jan., 1900. (125, 129.) Size rather smaller than in other races. Fur exceedingly short. General colour very pale. Face-markings normal. No darker lateral bands (at any age, fide Smith). White projection into body-colour on rump deep, quite surrounding tail. Pygal band short, narrow, sometimes almost obsolete. Horns comparatively short; the youthful growth-boss at their anterior bases retained into adult life and covered with a noticeable tuft of hair. Dimensions of the skull of the type, an adult male :-Basal length 240 mm.; greatest breadth 106; muzzle to orbit 140. Horns, length over curves in front 460 (18-1 in.); circumference at base 143. Hab. Country between Lake Rudolf and the Nile. Type from about 150 miles E. of Lado, on lat. 5° 20 N. Type. Adult male, skin and skull. B.M. No. 0.11.7.14. Original number 138. Collected 6 February, 1900, and presented by Dr. Donaldson Smith. For some time I have been aware that the Grant's Gazelle of the desert country west of Lake Rudolf was not quite the same as the typical East-African form; but although the Museum was last year given a female skin and skull by Lieut, (now Major) R. T. Bright, which were obtained in September 1898 on the N.W. shore of Lake Rudolf, and later on a separate male skull by Capt. J. D. Ferguson from Lumian, on the same shore of the Lake, it is only now that material sufficient to recognize it definitely has been brought to Europe. As Major Bright w'as the first to bring an example of this Gazelle to the National Museum, 1 have applied his name to this form. Dr. Smith noticed particularly that all the specimens seen were, like the type, very short-horned, that there wras a prominent tuft 1 Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. p. 303 (1900). 53* |
