68 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Antilope (Leptoceros) leptoceros, Wagjier, Schreber's Siiugthiere, 

 Supj>l. vol. iv, p. 422, 1844. 



Gazella dorcas, var. 4, Gray, Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 57, 1852. 



Gazella leptoceros, TemmincTi, Esquiss. Zool. Quine, p. 193, 1853 ; 

 Broohe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 543 ; LydelcJcer, Horns and 

 Hoofs, p. 234, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 

 1899, Game Animals of Africa, 1^.254, 1908; Sclater and Thomas, 

 Booh of Antelojjes, vol. iii, p. 137, 1898 ; Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1899, p. 593 ; Johjistoii, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 349, 

 1899 ; Anderson and de Winton, Zool. Egypt, Mamm. p. 343, 

 pi. Ixi, 1902 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 258, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 257, 1914. 



Leptoceros abu-harab,'i Fitzinger, Sitzhcr. Jc. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



Leptoceros cuvieri, i lix, pt. l,p. 160, 1869. 



Gazella loderi, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 522 ; Bramley, ibid. 

 1895, p. 863; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 169, 1869. 



Gazella leptoceros abu-harah, Lydehher, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 255, 1908. 



Ehim — a name also applied to other gazelles. 



Type of Leptoceros, Wagner, ncc Leach. 



Typical locality apparently Sennar. 



Size medium ; shoulder-height about 25 inches. Horns 

 long — about twice length of skull — slender, closely ridged 

 nearly to tips ; usually almost straight, with a slight back- 

 ward bend, but displaying considerable individual variation 

 in regard to divergence ; general colour pale sandy fawn, 

 with the usual markings faint and ill-defined ; median face- 

 stripe and dark lateral stripes sandy and contrasting but 

 slightly with the white ones ; flank and pygal bands pale 

 sandy with a brownish wash, only a little darker than back ; 

 ears long, narrow, and pointed, with the backs whitish buff; 

 tail sandy at root, darkening to brownish black towards tip ; 

 fronts of fore-limbs sandy, of hind-limbs whitish ; knee-tufts 

 but little darker than general colour. Skull with premaxillse 

 articulating broadly with nasals ; basal length about 6^ inches, 

 maximum breadth 3^^, length from muzzle to orbit 3f inches. 

 Good horns measure from 13 to 15|- inches in length, with a 

 basal girth of from 3^ to 4|, and a tip-to-tip interval ranging 

 from 3^ to 10;^ inches. 



The distributional area includes the sandy tracts of the 

 interior of Algeria, Tunisia, and the Eastern Sudan as far 

 south as Nubia and Sennar. 



