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There is some temptation to think the more southern specimens 10, 11, and 

 30 different from those from Oued Nca, their ears being a little longer and their 

 colourino- more orange. Bnt a comparison with them of the original skins from 

 Tripoli renders it evident that they cannot be satisfactorily divided on the material 

 at present available. For the Tripoli specimens have the ears of more or less 

 intermediate length, their general colour is more like that of the Oned N^a 

 specimens, while in the detailed colour of the hair-riags (always a doubtful 

 character to nse) they more resemble the Oued Mya skins. 



The whole series agree in the practical absence of cement from the incisive 

 grooves, by which character they are distinguishable from the otherwise similar 

 L. isahellinus Cretzschm. of Egypt. 



[These very fine reddish sand-coloured hares with their cuormons ears were not 

 rare in the Oued Mya and its tributaries, and quite numerous in the wide, ancient 

 river-bed of the Oued N(.-a, between Ghardaia and Guerrara. It was, however, not 

 very easy to shoot hares in the Oued Mya, as they seemed to rest, in the daytime, 

 more among the rocks and stones bordering the river-bed, where one could not 

 easily walk noiselessly, and they were quite shy ; during the night-time they came 

 to the Oued, and pulled down the branches of the Retam {lUtama raeUim), of which 

 they seemed to be rather foud. In the Oued N(;a hares were so frequent that one 

 often came across them, and could shoot them without difficulty.— E. H.j 



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NOTES ON RUMINANTS AND OTHER LARGE MAMMALS. 

 Bv ERNST HARTERT. 



1. Gazella older! Og.— This Gazelle, the " Edmi " of the Algerian Arabs, is 

 common enough in tiie southern ranges of the Atlas, especially in the more or 

 less bare rocks near El-Kautara, and it never leaves the mountains or their close 

 ueighijourhood. It appears to be generally found in the same districts as the 

 Barbary Sheep, but to be absent from the real Sahara, and we never saw or heard 

 of it south of Biskra. Edmi are shy and somewhat difficult to shoot, but can 

 often be approached under cover. (Edmi seems to be a Berber word?) 



2. Ou;:dla leptoceros lode.ri Thos.— The " Reem " (Rim) of tlie Arabs, or 

 " White Gazelle," is essentially a desert animal, being entirely restricted to tlie 

 Erg or rolling sand-dunes. It is found in the Erg between Biskra and El-Oued, 

 and is common in the Great Western Erg between Ouargla and Uliadames. We 

 found it also among the dunes south of El-Golea, and between El-Golea and 

 Ghardaia. It is probaldy found in every Erg of any great extent. Owing to 

 the hilly nature of the dunes and the noiseless walking on the sand, the Reem is 

 easily stalked, and generally killed with siiot by the Arabs, who have no idea of 

 8portsmanlike shooting: they often catch the young (with or without the helj) 

 of dogsj, then make it s(iueak, and kill the mother when coming to the help of her 

 young. In this way, and by waiting patiently for days and nights in ambush, 

 these and other Gazelles are decimated, and they will so.in be rare or disajiiiear 

 from all the more or less friMjucnled districts of Uie ndrlliern Sahii'a. 



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