THE MHORR GAZELLE 85 



antelope, which was almost continually moving 

 some portion of its body, and hardly kept still for 

 ten seconds tog-ether. Half a dozen films were 

 exposed, with but indifferent results : however, 

 knowing the extreme rarity of the animal, the 

 writer persevered. The best of several efforts is 

 reproduced at the head of this essay : it demon- 

 strates the markings of the rump and hind legs 

 characteristic of the species, and will, it is hoped, 

 constitute a useful contribution to the existing 

 material — all too scanty — available for the study 

 of this antelope. 



There remain, even to-day, many interesting 

 mammals, with whose habits and affinities the 

 naturalist is but very imperfectly familiar, and he 

 will find abundant scope for his energies in duly 

 prosecuting his studies amongst the same. Africa 

 especially abounds in little-known animals — the 

 white-winged bat of the Gambia, the jumping 

 shrews, the potamogale, the Western linsang, the 

 okapi : yet on account of its little understood 

 relationships with other antelopes, and on account 

 of its rarity and beauty, few members of the 

 splendid African fauna exceed in interest or in 

 attractiveness the subject of our essay — the mhorr 

 gazelle. 



