ARIEL GAZELLE, OR CORA. 
Tn this attitude the Gazelles will maintain their ground with considerable spirit and 
pertinacity, seeming to be entirely aware of the advantages which they derive from acting 
in concert, and oftentimes assuming the offensive as well as the defensive mode of 
action. 
The eye of the Gazelle is large, soft, and lustrous, and has been long celebrated by the 
poets of its own land as the most flattering simile of a woman’s eye. The colour of this 
pretty little animal is a light fawn upon the back, deepening into dark brown in a wide 
band which edges the flanks, and forms a line of demarcation between the yellow-brown 
of the upper portions of the body and the pure white of the abdomen. The face is 
rather curiously marked with two stripes of contrasting colours, one a dark black-brown 
line that passes from the eye to the curves of the mouth, and the other a white streak 
that begins at the horns and extends as far as the muzzle. The hinder quarters, too, are 
marked with white, which is very perceptible when the animal is walking directly from 
the spectator, 
THERE is considerable difficulty in assiening the Antelopes to their proper position 
in the animal kingdom, and in many instances zoologists are sadly bewildered in their 
endeavours to ascertain whether a certain animal is entitled to the rank of a separate 
species, or whether it can only be considered as a variety of some species already 
acknowledged. Such is the case with the ArteL GAZELLE, an animal which is now 
determined to be merely a variety of the preceding animal, and not entitled to take rank 
as an independent species. 
This beautiful little creature is very similar to the Dorcas Gazelle in general appearance, 
but is much darker in all its tintings, the back and upper portions of the body being a 
dark fawn, and the stripe along the flanks almost black. 
The Ariel is found in Syria and Arabia, and as it is not only a most graceful and 
elegant animal in appearance, but is also docile and gentle in temper, it is held in great 
estimation as a domestic pet, and may be frequently seen running about the houses at its 
own will. So exquisitely graceful are the movements of the Ariel Gazelle, and with such 
light activity does it traverse the ground, that it seems almost to set at defiance the laws 
of gravitation, and, like the fabled Camilla, to be able to tread the grass without bending 
