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Show 120 ON A NEW FORM OF GRANT'S GAZELLE. [June 16, stated among other things that all of the Gazelles, in the district where these were shot, were of the same kind, so that they could not be said to be abnormalities; that it was quite possible for the animal to be unknown to science, as few sportsmen had ever shot before in that region ; that the specimens sent, two males and a female, were much above the average in size, though still finer ones had been seen ; and that the ordinary Gazella granti of the Athi plains and Kilimanjaro was unknown there. This Gazelle was known as the " Biza " by the natives, who were Wanyumwesi. Text-fig. 11. Skull and horns of Gazella granti robertsi. (Lateral view.) The colour of this Gazelle appeared to agree in all respects with that of the typical form of G. granti, having the undivided white rump-patch, the obsolete lateral bands, and the narrow but distinct pygal band of that form*. The fur was somewhat more wavy than in ordinary specimens. Besides those seen by Messrs. Roberts and Blaine, two heads presenting similar characters had been obtained by Herr Oscar Neumann in the Loita Mountains, on the boundary of British and German East Africa, but had been not unnaturally regarded by him as abnormalities t. In spite of the very unusual nature of the distinguishing characters of this Gazelle, and its identity with Gazella granti in other respects, Mr. Thomas thought that the number of examples that had now been recorded, and the fact that this type alone inhabited certain districts and had never been found elsewhere, necessitated * Cf. P.Z. S. 1900, p. 806. By a lapsus calami the name of the new subspecies there described (Gazella g. brightii) was erroneously written G. g. smithii ii; the synopsis. t Zool. Jahrb. Syst. xiii. p. 561 (1900). |