A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising grains is characterized
that 70% or more of the total projected area of the grains are occupied
by tabular grains meeting requirements (i) to (v) below: (i) silver
bromochloroiodide grains having (111) faces as major surfaces, (ii)
hexagonal grains having a ratio of the length of an edge having the
maximum length to the length of an edge having the minimum length of not
more than 2, (iii) perfect epitaxial grains having a total of six
epitaxial junctions each existing only in each of six apex portions of
the hexagonal grains, (iv) the silver chloride content is 1 to 6 mol %,
and (v) the silver iodide content is 0.5 to 10 mol %.