Records of Big Game; With the Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weights, and Horn & Tusk Measurements of the Different Species (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...Abyssinia. (British Museum) W. T. Blanford. 10 3 4 Eastern Sudan. A. W. Haig.-9.144 3 Between Suakin and Prince Henry of Liechtenstein. Kassala 97 2 3 Do. Sir Victor Brooke's Collection.? 7 ij 2 Kordofan.. British Museum. HEUGLIN S GAZELLE (Gazella tUonura). This well-marked species brings us to a small sub-group in which the dark band on the flanks is very strongly defined, and black in colour; the present species being distinguished from its allies by the abrupt inward hooking of the tips of the horns. The general colour is deep sandy, with the central face-band but little darker than the back, no black nose-spot, and the tail sandy at the base but black elsewhere. Height at shoulder about 27 inches. Distribution.--Bogosland, in North-Eastern Africa. Very little is known of this rare species. l Tip to Tip. UoUUy. One, lii 4 24 Eastern Sudan. Lieut.-Col. Hon. W. Coke, lo 3i 44? E. Lort-Phillips. lo 4 2j Bogosland.. British Museum, loi 4JJ 3 Near Kassala.. Prince Colloredo Mannsfeld. ioJ 4J 4J Basaland.. Hon. Walter Rothschild. loJ 4 2i? Col. Ralph Vivian. 9j 4g ij Bogosland.. Sir Victor Brooke's Collection. 9 4i Ij Bahr-el-Ghazel. F. H. Barber. 9i' 4.1 3? Capt. H. H. S. Morant. 9-64...... Eastern Sudan. J. Menges. 9 Si it i'i Abyssinia.. Sir Victor Brooke's Collection. SENEGAL or RED-FRONTED GAZELLE (Gazella nififrons). El Hamra of the Dinkas. This medium-sized and rather stoutly built species agrees with Heuglin's gazelle in the black flank-stripe, but differs by the absence of a distinct inward hooking of the tips of the horns; the general colour being deep sandy rufous, brightening into rich rufous on the forehead and muzzle, without a black nose-spot. The knee-tufts so generally present in gazelles are wanting; and the tail, with the...