ORDER ARTIODACTYLA I EVEN-TOED UNGULATES 683 



Edmi Gazelle; Atlas Gazelle. Gazelle de Cuvier; Gazelle de 

 montagne (Fr.). Gacela monies (Sp.) 



GAZELLA CUVIERI (Ogilby) 



Antilope Cuvieri Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1840, pp. v, 35, 1841. ("Moga- 

 dore," Morocco ; the type, which was sent alive to London from Mogador, 

 came probably from the western end of the Grand Atlas (Cabrera, 1932, 

 p. 348).) 



FIGS.: Gray, Gleanings Knowsley Menagerie, pi. 3, 1850; Sclater and Thomas, 

 1898, vol. 3, pi. 58, pp. 113-114, figs. 58-59; Bryden, 1899, pi. 9, figs. 4-5; 

 Lydekker, 1908, pi. 9, figs. 4-5; Selous, 1914, pi. 53; Lavauden, 1924, p. 20, 

 figs. 1-2; Zammarano, 1930, p. 32, fig.; Maydon, 1932, pi. 20; Ward, 1935, 

 p. 166, figs.; Pocock, 1937, p. 671, fig. 



This gazelle of the Barbary States suffers from poor protection 

 and has become generally scarce. In fact, it is referred to as "prob- 

 ably the rarest of all the gazelles" (Maydon, 1932, caption of pi, 20) . 



General color dull fawn; central facial band brownish fawn, with 

 a black patch on top of the nose; whitish stripe from eye to nostril 

 bordered below by a blackish stripe; ears long, pointed, their backs 

 fawn; a broad, deep brown band on the flanks, bordered above by an 

 ill-defined light band ; a broad black stripe on each side of the rump ; 

 tail tuft black; under parts, buttocks, and inner surface of forelegs 

 white; fore-knees with distinct black tufts. Horns little divergent, 

 thick, strongly ribbed, curving slightly backward and finally forward 

 at the tip; record length on front curve, 14f inches. Height at 

 shoulder, 26-28 inches. Females similar, but horns shorter, slenderer, 

 and straighter. (Ogilby, 1841, p. 35; Sclater and Thomas, 1898, vol. 

 3, pp. 109-110; Ward, 1935, pp. 163-164.) 



This species is found especially in the mountainous regions of the 

 southern parts of the Barbary States: High Atlas of Morocco (region 

 of Mogador); Ksour of Oran; Djebel Amour; Monts des Ouled 

 Nail; Aures (regions from Biskra to Negrine) ; southern Tunisia 

 (regions of Tamerza and Gafsa as far as the chain of Tebaga, south 

 of the chotts) (Joleaud, 1929, p. 445) . 



Morocco. This gazelle is distributed in the Middle Atlas, as well 

 as in the calcareous hills of the eastern Sherifian Empire, from the 

 eastern end of the High Atlas as far as the mountains rising south 

 of Oudjda; but it does not reach the Beni Snassen. Thus it lives 

 in the intermediate chains of the Atlas across the zone of the Hauts- 

 Plateaux. (Joleaud, 1929, p. 445.) 



Its range includes the Middle and the High Atlas, and extends 

 beyond the latter almost to the Atlantic Coast. It is doubtful if it 

 occurs in the Sahara, on the border of the Erg, where Foley mentions 

 it under the name of G. corinna. It lives at high elevations in 

 Morocco, and in general in the same localities as the Arui, but in a 

 different ecological habitat the high valleys, the broad saddles, the 



