ANTILOPIN^ 



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Apparently a larger form closely related to the typical 

 race of rufifrons, with a richer rufous colouring, and the 

 knee-tufts dull rufous. Skull larger and heavier than in 

 rufifrons, with the lachrymal pits larger and deeper, the 

 nasal aperture relatively shorter and broader, and the upper 



Fig. 14. — Skull and Horns op Red Gazelle (Gazella rufina). 

 From Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894. 



line of the premaxillffi more curved ; basal length about 8^^, 

 maximum width 3f , length from muzzle to orbit 4| inches ; 

 length of horns in type 11| inches. 



94. 6. 4. 1. Skull, with horns (fig. 14), and skin. 

 Purchased by donor in Algiers. Type, 



Presented hj Sir E. G. Loclcr, Bart., 1894. 



XVI. GAZELLA LEPTOCEROS. 



Antilope leptoceros, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. iv, livr. Ixxii, 

 pis. 424 and 425, 1842 ; Wagner, Schreber's Sdugtliiere, Suppt 

 vol. iv, p. 422, 1844, vol. v, p. 407, 1855 ; Schinz, Synop. Mamm 

 vol. ii, p. 445, 1845, Mon. Antiloj?. p. 34, pi. xxxviii, 1848 

 SundevalJ, K. Svensha Vet. -Ah. Handl. 1845, p. 269, 1847 

 Oiehel, Sdugethiere, p. 309, 1853-55 ; Heuglin, Bcise Nordost 

 Afriha, vol. ii, p. 100, 1877. 



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