. Horn measurements and weights of the great game of the world: being a record for the use of sportsmen and naturalists . nce. Tip to Tip. Habitat. Owner. 24i 5i 16^ India Biilish Museum. 24l 5i II Do .Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 24i Si i3f Do Brilish Museum. 24 5h 12J Do Hume Collection, British Museum. 24 Si HI Do B. H. Hodgson, Brilish Museum. 235 5i I4i Do British Museum. 235 5i iif Do H. C. V. Hunter. 23^ 5 I4f Do Reginald Beech. 231 5i IO§ Do H. C. V. Hunter. 231 5J 9i Do Do. 2341 5g I4t Do Hon. Walter Rothschild. 23^ Si Hi Do Rowland Wards Collection. 23i Si IO| Do J. Carr-Saunders. 23i SJ


. Horn measurements and weights of the great game of the world: being a record for the use of sportsmen and naturalists . nce. Tip to Tip. Habitat. Owner. 24i 5i 16^ India Biilish Museum. 24l 5i II Do .Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 24i Si i3f Do Brilish Museum. 24 5h 12J Do Hume Collection, British Museum. 24 Si HI Do B. H. Hodgson, Brilish Museum. 235 5i I4i Do British Museum. 235 5i iif Do H. C. V. Hunter. 23^ 5 I4f Do Reginald Beech. 231 5i IO§ Do H. C. V. Hunter. 231 5J 9i Do Do. 2341 5g I4t Do Hon. Walter Rothschild. 23^ Si Hi Do Rowland Wards Collection. 23i Si IO| Do J. Carr-Saunders. 23i SJ 9i Do. Sir Victor Brookes Collection. 22| SI I3i Ladak (15,000 ft.) R. Lydekker, British Museum. 22^ si i H. C. V. Hunter. 22f s^ ? iSJ Nepal B. H. Hodgson, British Museum. 22i s 12 India F. Morrice. 22i si I03 Do H. C. V. Hunter. 22§ si i Do Hen. Charles Ellis. 22 Si Hi Do H. C. V. Hunter. 2Ji si I2i Do Hume Collection, British Museum. 20f s i Do H. C. V. Hunter. 20J 5 9i Do Capt. M. Murphy. 203 5i loi Do Hume Collection, British Museum. I9f S4 J Do H. C. V. Hunter. 19 Si 9l Do Do. 104 GREAT GAME OF THE GRANTS GAZELLE (Gazella granti).[Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., 1878, p. 723.] General colour, very rich fawn tinged with purple, the neck and backin certain lights mottled like watered silk ; this pattern is gainedby indefinitely bounded bands of darker hair. Central facial banddarker than the neck and body and strongly tinged with rufous onthe forehead ; a large black patch above the nostrils ; large facialstreaks very definite, white ; dark facial streak black, extendingfrom the base of the horn to the eye, which it almost encircles,and from the eye to above the corners of the mouth ; posterior tothe eye is a small white patch ; external surface of the ear-conchsstreaked with dark brown ; dark lateral and pygal bands distinctlymarked, the former grizzled, the latter very broad and jet-black;lower two thirds of the tail black, the upper third white ; thetip of th


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