126 Mr. R. I. Pocock on some 



the species except G. soemmeringii, for which I was dependent 

 upon a dried skin. Since that date I have been able to 

 confirm my observations upon additional and fresh material 

 of G. bennetti, subgutlurosa, rvffro?is, dorcas, pelzelni, and 

 sojmmeringii, and can now add to the list one previously 

 unexamined species — namely, G. dama. 



Some notes upon the examples of G. scemmeringii and 

 G. dama may be of interest. 



Gazella soemmeringii berberana. — Specimens from Somali- 

 land [R, E. Drake Brockmari). The preorbital gland is of 

 moderate size or small. The pedal glands are quite normal. 

 The inguinal glands are shallow wide-mouthed pouches 

 external to the mammas. The carpal glands are thick pads 

 of skin, covered with a mat of convergent hairs. 



In a male example the secretion from the inguinal glands 

 smelt like sour milk. In a female the secretion from the 

 same glands, like that from the knees, had a strong ovine 

 scent, like that of a pen of domestic sheep, whereas the 

 waxy secretion from the pedal glands resembled dogs' dung 

 in odour. 



The rhinarium (fig. 1, I) is a little less reduced than in 

 typical gazelles, in which it consists of hardly more than a 

 small irregularly pentagonal area of naked skin restricted to 

 the septum between the nostrils (fig. 1, G, H). But in 

 G. soemmeringii its upper edge is slightly expanded and 

 spreads a little to the right and left, partly hanging over the 

 nostrils above. 



In the penis (fig. 1, B) the tubular prolongation of the 

 urethra is short, barely projecting beyond the tip of the 

 slightly swollen termination of the glans. It is shorter than 

 in ordinary gazelles — e. g., G. bennettii (fig. 1, D) and 

 G. rufina, figured by Lonnberg in 1904. 



Gazella dama ruficollis. — Examples ( <$ ? ) from the Soudan 

 (G. Blaine). The preorbital gland is a shallow pit, quite 

 small as compared with that of the typical gazelles. The 

 pedal glands are quite normal. The inguinal glands consist 

 of a pair of very shallow wide-mouthed pouches, one on each 

 side just external to the corresponding mamma. The carpal 

 or knee-glands, on the contrary, are rather exceptionally 

 well developed, consisting of a pad of thick skin, overgrown 

 with a mat of mesially convergent hairs covered with scurfy 

 secretion. 



The end of the penis in this species is slightly enlarged 

 and the urethra is prolonged as a thin tube a little beyond 

 the tip of the glans (fig. 1, C). 



It has been suggested that the three large white-rumped 



