98 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



b'-. Colour darker and purer Isabella ; 

 a blackish mark on nose ; horn- 

 tips more sharply bent in G. s. erlangeri. 



c^. Colour still darker ; nose deep 

 black ; horn-tips less sharply 



bent in G. s. sibyllce. 



b^. Size larger (largest) G. s. casanovce. 



b. Horns longer, less bowed outwards G. s. berberana. 



B. A narrow dark pygal band G. s. butteri. 



A.— Gazella soemmerring-i soemmerringi. 



Gazella soemmerringi typica, Sclater and Thomas, Book of Ante- 

 lopes, vol. iii, p. 197, 1898 ; LydeJcker, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 266, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 273, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 271, 1914. 



Gazella soemmerringi soemmerringi, 0. Netimann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. 

 Freunde, 1906, p. 241. 



Typical locality Tal E' Sabb, Abyssinia, 

 General colour pale isabella-fulvous, without dark pygal 

 or flank bands ; horns much bowed outwards with tips 

 turning sharply inwards in a regular curve. Fine horns 

 measure from 15 to 17 inches in length, with a basal girth 

 of from 5 to 5f, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 3^ to 

 10 inches. 



1516, c. Skull, with horns, and skin, immature. 

 Abyssinia ; collected by Dr. Eiippell. This and the other 

 Abyssinian specimens are practically topo-types of the species. 



Purchased. 



69. 2, 2. 15. Skull, with horns. Bogosland ; collected 



by W, Jesse, Esq. during the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868. 



Presented hi/ the Viceroy and Council of Piidia, 1869. 



69. 2. 2. 16, Frontlet and horns. Same locality and 



collector. Same history. 



73. 2. 24. 7, Skin, mounted, Bogosland ; collected by 



Herr Essler. Purchased {Gerrard), 1873: 



8. 1. 15. 2. Skull, with horns. Binder Valley, Sudan. 



Presented hy J. Roivland Ward, Esq., 1908. 

 4. 7. 2. 6. Head, mounted (fig. 19). North-east Africa, 

 Bequeathed hy H. Andreiv, Esq., 1904. 

 4. 11, 3, 103, Skull, with horns, and head-skin, female. 

 Nakheila, Upper Egypt, 



Presented hi the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 1904. 



