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alone fulvous, Intermingled with black. The lips and lower 

 jaw, extending to the upper part of the throat, are white. A 

 remarkable white patch is seated about half way down in front 

 of the neck ; its form is that of a crescent placed transversely. 

 Length from nose to base of tail four feet two inches ; length of 

 tail, exclusive of hair, seven inches : height at the shoulder two 

 feet six inches ; height at the loins two feet eight inches. 

 Inhabits Morocco. 



Gazella Euchore. (Springer Antelope.) The adult male 

 about twenty-two inches high at the shoulders, twenty-four 

 inches at the croup ; head resembling a lamb's ; horns brown- 

 black, lyrate, robust, with about twenty complete rings, tips 

 turned inwards or forwards ; general colour of the fur pale-dun, 

 with white about the head, limbs, belly, and croup, separated 

 from the dun by a broad band along the flanks, another on the 

 edges of the fold of the croup, and a dark streak through the 

 eye ; females similar to the males ; horns more slender, with 

 few distant annuli. 



Inhabits plains of South Africa. 



Antilope Euchore, Forst. et Auctor. Pronkbok, Vosmaer. 

 A. Marsupialis, Zieumer. A. Pygarga, Blumenb. A. Dorsata, 

 Lacepede. Spring-bok of the Cape Colonists. Tsebe of the 

 Coffers. 



Gazella Dorcas. (The Barbary Antelope.) Adult male 

 less than the Roebuck ; horns black, round, lyrated, thirteen 

 inches long, annulated at base, semi-annulated in the middle, 

 with twelve or thirteen bars, points slightly turned forwards, 

 and the sides striated ; facial line concave ; face rufous, with 

 black in the middle, and edged at the side with yellowish-white, 

 which extends from the orbits to the nostrils ; a white and black 

 streak from the eyes to the nose inside ; ears streaked with 

 black ; eyes large and black ; general colour pale fulvous ; 

 below white; tail short, tufted with black; brushes on the 

 knees ; a broad brown band on the flanks ; female with horns 

 more slender, points turned inwards ; two mammae. 



Inhabits Northern Africa, Southern Syria, and Persia. 



Dorcas, iElian. A. Dorcas, Pallas et Auctor. Gazal q/* the 

 Arabs. Tzchi of Scripture. Gazalle, Buifon. 



Var? Gazella Kevella. (The Kevel.) Adult male equal in 

 size to the former ; facial line straighter; horns more robust, 

 compressed at base, longer, with more decided flexures, with 

 twelve to twenty annuli, points turned forwards; orbits larger; 

 eyes fuller, hazel colour ; white space round the eyes, broader, 

 and the same colour extending on the nether jaw ; streak down 

 the face fulvous ; below each eye fulvous -brown, without 

 blackish intermixture ; g«uer»l colour pale fulvous, beneath 



