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quest, in the mountains about Constantine, as well as on the borders 

 of Algiers and Oran. (Joleaud, 1929, p. 445.) 



Tunisia. "The Mountain Gazelle ... is to be found sparingly 

 on most of the mountains throughout the Tunisian Regency. . . . 

 It never occurs, so far as I am aware, on the plains, or at any dis- 

 tance from hilly country. 



"I have met with the Edmi, and obtained specimens of it, on some 

 of the higher ranges near Kasrin, in Central Tunis, and have found 

 it in the south near Gafsa and Tamerza. In the north of the Regency 

 it seems to occur on the mountains near Zaghouan, the extreme 

 eastern range of the Atlas, and in the neighbourhood of Gharimaou 

 .... It seems evident, therefore, that the species has a wide range 

 in the Regency, although perhaps it is nowhere very abundant." 

 (Whitaker, 1897, pp. 815-816.) 



It inhabits the mountains of the south and the center Djebel 

 Sidi-A'ich, Djebel Chambi, Djebel Selloum and ranges toward the 

 north as far as Bou-Kornine. It lives in small isolated troops of 

 3 to 6 individuals. It is always rare. (Lavauden, 1924, p. 21.) 



It only touches the border of the Sahara proper, in certain moun- 

 tain chains of southern Tunisia (Tebaga chain, for example, south 

 of the chotts) (Lavauden, 1926, p. 21). 



In Tunisia the range extends almost continuously from south to 

 north, along a chain of small calcareous hills, as far as Ghardimaou 

 (Ouargha massif), Teboursouk (Djebel Ech Chehid), and Tunis 

 (Djebels Bou Kournin and Zaghouan). It is somewhat erratic in its 

 movements; thus it disappears from Bargou and Slata, while remain- 

 ing in the adjacent mountains of the Serdj and the Harraba in central 

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



Libya. Reports from this country are not as well substantiated 

 as might be desired. De Beaux (1928, pp. 41, 74) records a single 

 horn found near Jarabub, but not certainly of local provenance, 

 and perhaps brought from somewhere on the plateau of Cirenaica. 

 It is probably on the basis of this specimen that Heim de Balsac 

 (1936, p. 101) refers to the occurrence of the species on the plateau 

 of Barka, Cirenaica. 



Rufous Gazelle. Gazelle rouge (Fr.) 



GAZELLA RUFINA Thomas 



GazeUa rufina Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1894, p. 467, 1894. (Type 

 locality unknown; the type specimen was purchased in Algiers.) 



FIGS.: Thomas, 1894, p. 468, fig. 1; Sclater and Thomas, 1898, vol. 3, p. 168, 

 fig. 73. 



Only three specimens of this puzzling species are known, and it is 

 probably now extinct (Heim de Balsac, 1936, p. 88) . 



