GAZELLA. 157 



by an allied species Hippotragus bakeri of Heuglin. (See Sclater 

 P. Z.S., 1868, p. 214). 



If H. leucophaeus of Pallas is considered merely as a smaller 

 or younger specimen ofH, equinus, the former name has many 

 years priority and will of course stand. 



a. Frontlet ^ A. S. B. 



Genus GAZELLA. 



Gazella, Blainville Bull. Soc, Philom. p. 75 (1816)*. 



Antidorcas, Sundevall Kongl. Vatens Akad. Handl, (1844)*. Type, G. 



euchore. 

 Procapra, Hodgson, J. A. S. B., xv, p. 334 (1846). Type, G. picticaudata. 

 Tragops, Hodgson J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 695 (1847). Type, G. bennetti. 



Key of the Indian Species. 



a. Females horned ; horns of males not lyrate. 



Gazella bennetti, p. 159. 

 a^. Females hornless. 



b. Horns lyrate, a distinct antorbital pit to the skull. 



Gazella subgutturosa, p. 160. 



b'^. Horns scimitar-shaped ; no trace of antorbital pit. 



Gazella picticaudata, p. 161. 



Gazella dorcas. 



Capra dorcas, LinncBus Syst. Nat., i2th ed., i, p. 96 (1766). 



Antilope dorcas, Pallas Spic. Zool., i, p. 11 (1767). 



Gazella dorcas, Lichtenstein Mag. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, vi, p. 168 

 {\8i2)* ; Blyth Cat., p. 172; Tristravi P.Z. S., 1866, p. 86 ; Danford 

 and Alston P. Z. S., 1877, p. 276; Brooke P. Z. S., 1873, p. 537. 



DistrihuHon. — Asia Minor near Tarsus (Danford), Syria, Egypt, 

 and Algeria. 



a. Skin, skull ^ Zoological Gardens, 1881. 



and horns. 



b. Skin $ juv. Egypt R. A. Turnbull, 1881. 



c. Skeleton $ No history. 



d. Stuffed $ Rajah R. Mullick, 1872. 



Gazella Isabella. 



Gazella Isabella, Cray Ann. Mag. N. H., xviii, p. 214 (1846); Brooke 



P. z. s., 1873, p. 539. 



Gazella dorcas, apud Blanford Abyssinia, p. 261 (1870). 



Disiribuiion — The Egyptian Soudan up to the coast at Mas- 

 sowah. 



