The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
_Gazella granti_, =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 601, pl. xli.;
=id.= P. Z. S. 1873, p. 550; =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1875, p. 527, pl.
lix. (Viv. Soc. Zool.); =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 723 (figs.,
head); =Scl.= List An. Z. S. (8) p. 142 (1883); =Pagenst.= JB.
Mus. Hamb. ii. p. 38 (1884); =Johnston=, Kilimanjaro Exp. p.
394 (1886); =Hunter=, in Willoughby, E. Africa, p. 289 (1889);
=Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 342, fig. 2 (head) (1891); =Ward=, Horn
Meas. (1) p. 104 (1892), (2) p. 148 (1896); =True=, P. U. S.
Nat. Mus. xv. p. 473 (1892); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 236
(1893); =Lugard=, E. Afr. i. p. 534 (1893); =Jackson=, in Badm.
Big Game Shooting, i. p. 298 (1894); =id.= P. Z. S. 1897, p.
453; =Matsch.= Säug. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 131 (1895); =Donaldson
Smith=, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 868; =A. Neumann=, Elephant-Hunting in
E. Africa, pp. 9, 10 (figs., horns, ♂ ♀) (1898).
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Swara_ (_Jackson_) and _Njéra_ (_Stuhlmann_)
in Swahili.
Size large; height at withers about 34 inches. Fur close and short.
General colour fawn, rather variable in tone. Lateral bands, both
light and dark, usually very indistinct, often scarcely perceptible;
but, on the other hand, occasionally well developed, especially in
young animals. Central facial band richer fawn, approaching rufous;
a brownish spot present on the muzzle. Light facial streaks white,
sharply defined, running up over the eyes to the horns. Below these
the dark facial bands are almost imperceptible, scarcely or not at
all darker than the fawn-coloured cheeks and neck. Rump with the
white of the hams very broad, extended upwards, and uniting across
the base of the tail, so that the latter is quite separated from the
dark body-colour; laterally the white penetrates angularly into the
body-colour, overhanging the top of the pygal band, which is generally
well-defined. Outer sides of limbs fawn, without blacker markings.
Knee-brushes present, dark fawn. Tail above white for its basal half;
black and crested terminally.
Skull stout and heavy, nasal opening broad. In that of an adult male
the basal length is 9·75 inches, greatest breadth 4·4, muzzle to orbit
5·3.
Horns very long, longer and more powerful than in any other Gazelle;
evenly but slightly curved backwards below, and gently recurved
forwards terminally; sometimes but slightly divergent, but more often,
especially in specimens from Kilimanjaro, they spread widely above,
approaching each other again at their tips. Their section at base is
a long oval, very different from the nearly circular section found in
_G. soemmerringi_.
_Female._ Similar to the male, but the horns slender, nearly
circular in section, more strongly ridged than in the females of most
Gazelles; about two-thirds in length of those of the male.
_Hab._ Eastern Africa, from the district of Lake Rudolph,
southwards to Ugogo.
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