The book of antelopes . Grants Gazelle, Ugogo.(From Spekes Journal of Discovery, p. 61.) The original woodcut of Spekes Journal, drawn by Wolf, as shown by hisinitials, we have now the pleasure of reproducing by the kind favour of thepublishers of that work. It was no doubt executed under Spekes direction,and, although not quite satisfactory according to our present knowledge ofthe animal, gives several views of the shape and size of the horns of GrantsGazelle. Although Speke in his Journal writes of the Ugogo Antelope as beingundoubtedly new, he was at first evidently by no means certain abou
The book of antelopes . Grants Gazelle, Ugogo.(From Spekes Journal of Discovery, p. 61.) The original woodcut of Spekes Journal, drawn by Wolf, as shown by hisinitials, we have now the pleasure of reproducing by the kind favour of thepublishers of that work. It was no doubt executed under Spekes direction,and, although not quite satisfactory according to our present knowledge ofthe animal, gives several views of the shape and size of the horns of GrantsGazelle. Although Speke in his Journal writes of the Ugogo Antelope as beingundoubtedly new, he was at first evidently by no means certain about thispoint, as in a letter addressed to Sclater from Kazeh, in February 1861, hereferred it doubtfully to Gazella soemmerringi. But in a footnote to this 2c2 182 letter (which was published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Societyfor January 1863) Sclater stated his conviction that, so far as could bedetermined from the rough sketch of the horns which accompanied the Fig. Fig. 7!
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