312 LODER’S GAZELLE CHAP. 
legend. Its blood is believed by the Mongols to possess virtues, 
and by means of the rings on the horns fortunes are told. Natur- 
ally the animal is on these grounds hard to stalk and shoot. 
The Gazelles, genus Gazella, are fairly numerous in species, 
which are both Palaearctic and Ethiopian. There are altogether 
twenty-five of them. The genus as a whole is characterised by 
the small or moderate size, the sandy coloration with white belly, 
Fic. 161.—Loder’s Gazelle. Gazella loderi. x 4}y. 
the presence of dark and light stripes on the face and on the 
flanks. These streaks, however, are not always present, and their 
presence or absence serves to differentiate some of the species. 
The horns are usually present in both sexes. The horns are of 
fair length, ringed, and of lyrate form. 
The Springbok is separated from the rest of the Gazelles, to 
which genus it is clearly most nearly related, as a genus Anti- 
dorcas. This genus differs from Gazella by having only two lower 
premolars as in Saiga. Otherwise it resembles the Gazelles ; 
there is but a single species, A. ewchore, which is African. 
