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covered slopes of the low mountains, and the small meadows between 

 the mountain forests. Here it is met with in small groups, or rather 

 in families, never in herds. It abounds especially in the central part 

 of the Middle Atlas, in the territories of the Beni Mguild and the 

 Ait Aiach, and more particularly along the line of contact between 

 this chain and the High Atlas. (Cabrera, 1932, pp. 348-350.) 



It was formerly abundant in the Zaian district of central Morocco, 

 in the environs of Sidi Lamine and Khenifra, but has been destroyed 

 little by little. It still exists in the vicinity of Guelmous, of the Ait 

 Ishacq, in the zone of posts. A small band was met with near 

 Alemsid. The natives pursue it mercilessly at all seasons. Moreover, 

 the transhumant shepherds slaughter it in summer in the high pas- 

 tures which they seek. (Carpentier, 1932, p. 22.) 



H. C. Maydon writes (in litt., February 28, 1933) : "No up to date 

 information. From what I saw and heard in Morocco I fancy they 

 are scarce and very ill protected. The Arabs have too many guns 

 (outside administered zones) and there are too many people ready 

 to hunt game in motor cars, as also in Syria and Egypt." 



This gazelle is now almost completely driven back from the lit- 

 toral regions, but it exists in numbers on the pre-Saharan declivities, 

 from the Sus to the Syrtes (Heim de Balsac, 1936, p. 101) . 



Algeria. It is met with especially on the borders of the Sahara 

 and the Hauts-Plateaux. Loche (1867) records it in southern Algeria 

 and especially on the Djebel-Amour. (Lataste, 1885, p. 294.) 



In eastern Algeria "this Gazelle is by no means so rare as is 

 generally supposed, though it is difficult to secure .... There is 

 hardly a mountain in the southern ranges of the Aures where they 

 are unknown, and I have seen them on almost every mountain from 

 far to the N. W. of Biskra to the Tunisian frontier at Negrine. I 

 know that they are common on the Djebel Cherchar, and I have seen 

 them as far north as the hills and woods of Melagon, near Chelia. 

 I have seldom seen more than eight in a herd, and far more fre- 

 quently they are met with singly and in pairs, or bands of three 

 to five." (Pease, 1897, p. 814.) 



"This Gazelle ... is common enough in the southern ranges of 

 the Atlas, especially in the more or less bare rocks near El-Kantara, 

 and it never leaves the mountains or their close neighbourhood. It 

 appears ... to be absent from the real Sahara, and we never saw 

 or heard of it south of Biskra." (Hartert, 1913, p. 33.) 



In Algeria it does not pass south of the Aures mountains. It 

 ranges toward the north not only across the Algerian Hauts- 

 Plateaux, but even in the Atlas of Tell. (Lavauden, 1926, pp. 21-22.) 



In eastern Algeria it lives on the rocky hills of the plains of Numi- 

 dia (Djebel Tafrent, etc.). It existed, at the beginning of the con- 



