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
There is a good mounted specimen of an adult male of this Antelope in
the Gallery of the British Museum, obtained by Mr. F. J. Jackson in the
Kilimanjaro district of British East Africa and presented by him. Mr.
Jackson has also given the Museum a fine skull of an adult male from
the same locality, and has placed at the service of the Museum three
other mounted heads of this Antelope. The National Collection also
contains skulls of an adult pair of Grant’s Gazelle from Kilimanjaro
presented by Mr. W. Carlisle Fraser, and several skulls and skins
of different ages from Machakos, collected and presented by Mr. S.
L. Hinde. Besides these some skulls and skins obtained during the
Cavendish expedition to Lake Rudolph, and presented by Mr. H. S. H.
Cavendish and Mr. H. Andrew, have lately been added to the series.
Our illustration of this beautiful Antelope (Plate LXIX.), which shows
the horns of the male in various attitudes, was prepared by Mr. Wolf
under Sir Victor Brooke’s directions and drawn upon the stone by Mr.
Smit. We are not sure as to the specimens from which it was taken.
_September,_ 1898.
101. PETERS’S GAZELLE.
GAZELLA PETERSI, GÜNTH.
_Gazella granti_, =Peters=, MB. Ak. Berl. 1879, p. 832, pl. v.
(skull).
_Gazella petersi_, =Günth=. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) xiv. p. 428
(1884); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 238 (1893); =Jackson=,
in Badm. Big Game Shooting, i. p. 299 (1894); =A. Neumann=,
Elephant-Hunting in E. Africa, pp. 9, 10 (figs., horns, ♂ ♀)
(1898).
_Gazella grantii_ var. _gelidjiensis_, =Noack=, Zool. Gart.
xxviii. p. 277 (1887).
VERNACULAR NAME:--_Sala_ (Swahili) (_Fischer_).
Size large; height at withers about 33 inches. General colour and
markings practically identical with those of the last species,
_Gazella granti_, with the exception that the white rump-patch
is of much less extent. This patch, which in _G. granti_ is very
broad, and projects prominently forward on each side, overhanging the
dark pygal band, and passes across above the tail, separating that
organ entirely from the dark dorsal colour, is in _G. petersi_
divided above into two portions by an extension of the body-colour
which runs down on to and along the top of the tail. Laterally the
white is much narrower, and encroaches much less on the body-colour
above, scarcely or not at all overhanging the pygal band.
Skull rather smaller than in _G. granti_, and the nasal opening
rather narrower. Basal length in a male 9·3 inches, greatest breadth
4·2, muzzle to orbit 5·4.
Horns similar to those of _G. granti_, but smaller and more
uniformly parallel, never widely divergent above. Horns of female about
two-thirds the length of those of the male, slender and comparatively
straight.
_Hab._ Coast-districts of British East Africa, from Mombasa
northwards to beyond the Tana.
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