190 African Zoology. 



Inhabits the interior of North Africa from Nubia to Senegal. 



L. Nanguer, Buffon. A. Dama, Auctor. Swift Antelope, 

 Pennant, is the young animal. A. Ruficollis, Grsetzmer, the 

 adult. Engry ? of the Bornouese. Ngria? of the Byhermese. 



' Gazella Mhorr, Bennet. Form light and elegant : the head 

 tapers uniformly, with face moderately prolonged, suborbital 

 sinus of small extent; horns black, embedded at their base 

 in long hair, and marked with eight distinct well defined rings, 

 and one or two incomplete ones, which occupy about two-thirds 

 of the entire length, the remainder towards the points being 

 perfectly smooth and shining. They rise upwards from the 

 head, and pass backwards and a little outwards to a short 

 distance beyond the termination of the rings, from which point ». 

 they form a strong curve forwards, and thus bring the upper 

 and smooth part to a right angle with the rest of the horn, and 

 with the line of profile. Colours of cheeks and neck, outer 

 surfaces of extremities and upper parts of body, a deep fulvous 

 or dull bay, which terminates abruptly in the white of the belly ; 

 between the ears and behind the horns it is tinged with blackish 

 or iron grey. Tlie grey occurs again in front of the horns, 

 where it is slightly intermingled with rufous, and is continued 

 in a broad stripe down the middle line of the face to the muzzle. 

 On either side this dark middle streak is bounded by a nearly'^ 

 white but somewhat fawn-coloured streak, proceeding from 

 above the eye to the muzzle. From the inner canthus of the 

 eye a deep grey streak, bordering the last, passes to the angle 

 of the mouth ; at its upper part, adjoining the small suborbital 

 sinus, it is nearly black. The same black colour occurs in a 

 corresponding spot above and behind the eye. Immediately * 

 adjoining the eye, and surrounding the under lid and outer ' 

 canthus, is a patch of white ; and a large patch of white occurs 

 also under the base of the ear, extending backwards, and being 

 separated in front from that of the hinder part of the eye by 

 the intervention of rather pale rufous proceeding from tlie 

 cheeks to just behind the base of the horns. The hairs of the 

 base and tips of the ears in front, of their edges, and of two 

 longitudinal lines within them, are white. The outside of the 

 ears is fulvous, with a mixture of blackish, which is considera- 

 bly increased towards the tips, where the colour is near black. 

 The whole of the lower parts of the sides and under surface, 

 with the inner, the hinder, and the anterior surfaces of the 

 limbs, are pure white. The white of the hinder part of the 

 posterior limbs extends upwards for about four inches above 

 the tail, including the tail and the whole rump, and is pro- 

 longed forwards on each haunch in a broad streak about five 

 inches in length. The long hairs of the tip of the tail arc 



