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band rich rufuns or madder-brown ; under-parts white, 

 sharply divided from coloured area, as is also stripe on 

 buttocks ; median facial stripe deep rufous, light facial 

 stripes white, and dark ones blackish ; a blackish nose-spot 

 ears long, typically 5^g inches (140 mm.), against 4J-^ inches, 

 (1 25 mm.) in dorcas. Skull long and low, with the brain- 

 case flatter, and the parabola from crown to occiput less 

 nearly vertical than in dorcas; basisphenoid more nearly 

 horizontal than in latter; palatal surface of maxillte in 

 neighbourhood of palatines convex, but anteriorly runnicg 

 into a median groove, and flattening out above palatine 

 foramina into a pair of converging flanges ; premaxillte nearly 

 straight ; auditory bullse small ; upper row of cheek-teeth 

 longer than in dorcas, but molars narrower, 



A.— Gazella littoralis littoralis. 



Typical locality Korasot, Nubian Desert. 



General characters as above. Maximum width of skull 

 6}| inches (174 — in one case 167 mm.); maximum orbital 

 width Z^Q inches (77 mm.) ; length of upper series of cheek- 

 teeth 2|- inches (56 — in one case 53 mm.). 



The range includes the Red Sea littoral from Suakiu 

 northwards and the adjacent desert tract. 



11. 10. 29. 6. Skull, with horns, and head-skin. Khorasot, 

 Nubian Desert. Type. Presented hj W. B. Cotton, Esq., 1911. 



11. 10. 29. 7. Another specimen. Khor Fagada, Nubian 

 Desert. Same Idstory. 



11. 10. 29. 8. Skull, with horns. Khorasot. 



Same history. 



11. 10. 29. 9. Skull, with horns, and head-skin. Atra 

 liabai Hills, Nubian Desert. Same Idstory. 



129, a. Skull, with horns, and skin. Red Sea Littoral. 



Purchased (Cross). 



129, c. Skull, with horns, and skin, female. Same 

 region. Same history. 



38. 4. 16. 19. Imperfect skull, with horns, and skin. 

 Same region. Purchased, 1838. 



97. 12. 20. 1-2. Two skulls, with horns, and skins, 

 female. Suakin. Presented hy Major W. S. Sparkes, 1897. 



