204 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



THE MUSCAT GAZELLE 



( Gazc//ii iiii/scatcnsis) 



This, the hist representative of the gazelles inhahiting any portion of 

 the area treated of in the present volume, belongs to a sub-group ot two 

 species differing from the group containing the dorcas and Arabian 

 gazelles by the form of the horns, in which the tips are hooked inwards 

 or upwards, bending nearly at a right angle to the main direction. The 

 special feature by which the Muscat gazelle dilfers trom its ally the 

 Nubian gazelle is its much darker colour ; the general hue ot the upper- 

 parts being brownish fawn, with the flank-band blackish. This gazelle is 

 only known from Muscat, and was first described by the late Sir Victor 

 Brooke. 



THE BEATRIX ORYX 



[Oryx hcafrix) 



(Plate U. Fig. i 2) 



The Beatrix, or Arabian oryx, which received the name by which it is 

 now known from the late Dr. |. E. Gray in 1857 in honour of the Princess 

 Beatrice, is the smallest representative ot the oryx group, and the only one 

 unknown in Africa. As a matter of foct, however, it is really the animal 

 described by the Russian naturalist Pallas in 1777 ;^s Oryx Iciicoryx^ 

 although that title is now transferred to the species known as the white 

 oryx ; and in reality that name is much more applicable to the 

 present species. In height the Beatrix oryx stands about 31; inches at the 

 shoulder. Its coloration is extremely striking and peculiar ; the general 



