580 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Key to the Genera 



False hoofs and anteorbital pore present; horns lyrate or parallel in 

 direction 

 Head rounded, snout short; neck and legs of normal length; face 

 striped and flanks usually with a blackish band; female 

 horned in East African species; mammae, two 



Gazella 



Head elongate, flattened; snout produced; neck and legs greatly 

 lengthened; sides of face uniform in color and flanks 

 without dark band; female hornless; mammae, four 



Lithocranius 



False hoofs and anteorbital pore absent; horns showing a tendency 

 toward a spiral twist, broadly U-shaped and ringed; 

 female hornless; body size medium Mpyceros 



Gazelles 



Gazella 



Gazella Lichtenstein, 1814, Mag. Nat. Freunde, Berl., VI, pp. 152 and 171; 

 type G. subguturosa, fixed in Book of Antelopes, Sclater and Thomas, 1879, 

 vol. Ill, p. 65. 



The coloration Is usually vinaceous or cinnamon on the 

 dorsal surface and white on the under-parts. The face is 

 marked by two or three bands and the tail is of medium 

 length. The horns in the males are usually well developed 

 and are lyrate or parallel. The females are usually horned 

 and furnished with two mammae. The muzzle is simple, the 

 nasal bones being short and in contact with the maxillary 

 and premaxillary bones. The anteorbital fossa are moderate 

 or large. 



The genus ranges from northern and eastern Africa 

 south in the Nile Valley to the Victoria Nyanza and in East 

 Africa to central German East Africa. Beyond Africa it 

 extends through western and central Asia. 



This, the largest and most wide-spread genus of ante- 

 lopes, contains some twenty valid species. It is known as 

 far back in geological time as the Upper Miocene of Europe. 

 Several species are known from the Pliocene of Europe, 



