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black eye-stripe frequently continued downwards to the 

 lower jaw and thence backwards to join the throat-stripe ; 

 frontal patch and nose-patch sometimes isolated, in other 

 cases united by a narrow line, as in typical race ; no black 

 on front of shanks of fore-legs ; ears surmounted by long 

 tufts of black hair ; dorsal hair- whorl a little behind middle 

 of back, instead of on rump ; skull broad in front of orbits, 

 with tips of premaxillte pointed, and molars very large ; 

 horns relatively short. Good horns measure from oO to 33^ 

 inches in length, with a girth of from 5| to 5|, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval ranging from G to 14^ inches. 



The range includes British East Africa south of the 

 Tana, and the interior of German East Africa. 



92. 3. 19. 4. Head, mounted. Kilimanjaro district. Type. 

 Presented hy J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1892. 



2. 8. 14. 1. Skull, with horns, and head-skin. Athi 

 Plains, B. E. Africa. Presented hj Mrs. Pelletv, 1902. 



2. 8. 14. 2. Skull, with horns, and head-skin, female. 

 Same locality. Sa7ne histori/. 



III. ORYX ALGAZEL. 



Antilope gazella, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii, p. 17, 1777 ; Kerr, 

 Linn's Afiim. Kingdom, p. 316, 1792; Dauditi, Lacepede's 

 Buffon, vol. xiv, p. 182, 1799 ; Bechstein, Uebersicht vierfiiss. 

 Thiere, vol. ii, p. 642, 1800 ; Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. 

 vol. xxiv, Tabl. p. 32, 1804, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 475, 1822 ; 

 Goldftiss, Schreber's Sdugthiere, vol. v, p. 1182, 1819; Scliinz, 

 Cuvier's Thierreich, vol. i, p. 394, 1821 ; Desmoulins, Diet. Class. 

 Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 444, 1822 ; Savi, Isis, 1832, p. 499 ; Rilppell, 

 Neue Wirbelth. Abyssin. p. 16, 1835 ; Oken, Allgemeine 

 Naturgeschichte, vol. vii, p. 1396, 1838; F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat, 

 Mamm., Index, p. 5, 1842 ; Wagner, Sehreber's Sdugthiere, 

 Stipid. vol. iv, p. 481, 1844 ; Scliinz, Synop. Mamm. vol. ii, 

 p. 437, 1845 ; G-iebel, Sdugethiere, p. 295, 1853-1855 ; nee Capra 

 gazella, Linn. 



Ceropliorus (Oryx) gazella, Blainville, Bull. Soe. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Cemas algazel, -OTcen, LehrbueU NaturgescJiiehte, vol. iii, pt. 2, p. 741, 

 1816, partim, ex " Algazel," Buffon, Hist. Nat. vol. xii, pp. 211 

 and 272, pis. xxxiii, f:gs. 1 and 2, 1764. 



Antilope tao, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 189, 

 vol. V, p. 327, 1827 ; A. Smith, S. Afriean Quart. Journ. vol. ii, 

 p. 187, 1834 ; Sehinz, Synoj). Mamm. vol. ii, p. 425, 1845. 



Antilope (Oryx) bezoastica, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. iv, p. 191, vol. V, p. 327, 1827, misprint for bezoartica; nee 

 Pallas. 



