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where a nnmher of skulls and horns from .Jebel Bawati in Nnbia are tignred and 

 described. 



Abont Gazella rufinn Thos. (P.Z.S. 1894, p. 467, fig. sknll), described from 

 a specimen bonght in a shop in Algiers, we have no fnrther information, and its 

 habitat, is still nnknown. 



In the Proc. Zoo/. Sac. London^ 1911, p. 901, Mr. R. Lvdekker described as 

 a new species of Gazelle an animal said to have come from " Algeria, between 

 Constantine and Biskra," nnder the name of Gnzella hai/i. At a meeting of the 

 Zoological Society on October 29, 1912, Mr. Lydekker pointed out that, "owing 

 to an unfortunate mistake in labelling, the Gazelle described in 1911 as a new 

 species, Gazella liui/i, was really G. fuscifrons" (see Abstract Proc. No. 112, p. 1). 

 The latter is the Persian and Balnchistau form of Gazella bennetti, and it is 

 cnrions that the error had not been detected at once. 



5. Gazella mhorr (Benn.). — This species is, according to statements from 

 French officers, and to onr Arabs, common in the Hoggar mountains, and even 

 found in small numbers in the hills of Muidir, belonging to the Hoggar system. 

 We saw a number of horns in In-Salah, and a pair was given me by Com- 

 mandant Pein. This would doubtless be the typical mhorr, described from 

 Marocco, while Guzelhi ilmn't replaces it in Senegambia and G. rtijlcollis in 

 Dongola and Sennaar. The Arabs call it " Mhor." 



6. Addax iiasomacylatiis (Blainv.). — The Arabs now call this species varionsly 

 Meha and Begra-el-Onach. The latter name has been said to be that of Bubulia 

 buaelaphus {bubalis)hy Lataste and others, Imt it is in Algeria nowadays one of 

 the names of Addax nasomaculatm. The Addax is even now not very rare in the 

 Great Eastern Erg between Bir er-Resof (" Bir Beresof") and Khadames, but it 

 seems to be shifting its (juarters according to the pasturage, which entirely depends 

 on the rain ; this is from reports of Arabs and French officers, and it must be 

 true, for fresh horns are not rarely brought to Ouargla and thence to Biskra. 

 In 1893 a freshly killed animal was brought in to Ouargla, according to Professor 

 Koenig. During our journey we did not come across any sign of Addax, nor did 

 Mr. Spatz last summer, when he travelled far into the Western Erg to Aiu Tnil)a 

 and Hassi Melah. Fifty-five years ago Tristram saw an Addax on the Oned Nca. 



7. BabalU baselaphas (I'all.) (= biihalia Pall. 17G7). — We were unable to find 

 any proof whatever of the existence of the Bubal in Algeria. Nobody knew it ; 

 not even a horn could be found, nor could we find any Arab who would proiess 

 that he had seen it. The name " Begra-el-Ouach " (= Wild Cow), which, according 

 to former authors, used to Ik; the name of the Bubal, is now used for the Addax, 

 as well as " Meha," though the former appears to be inappropriate, and much 

 better suited for the Bubal. 



8liaw(2'/'ac<'/.s in, Barbari/ and the Lecaid, second edition, 17o7, p. 17U) descril)ed 

 the " Bekker el Wash " as a wild species of cow, which lived in large herds, was 

 of the size and colour of Bed Deer, and was apparently then common uortli of 

 the Atlas, as the south was- at that time unknown! Loclie described it ns being 

 contiued to the mountuiuous districts of the south; and Tristram ( Tlir Great Ha/iara, 



