688 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



"This species does not occur in Sennar, and I have failed to obtain 

 any evidence of its occurrence or former occurrence in any part of 

 Nubia. . . . This . . . species is confined to desert tracts on the 

 western side of the Nile. It existed, but was not numerous, in the 

 desert west of Giza which stretches from the Wadi Natron southward 

 to the Fayum." It has bred in captivity at the Giza Zoological 

 Gardens. (Flower, 1932, pp. 438-439.) 



In 1932 Bagnold (1933, pp. 107-108) found "well-worn gazelle 

 tracks crossing the country in every direction" a little west of Gebel 

 'Uweinat, in the northwestern part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 

 "The place was full of gazelle/' two of which were secured and eaten. 

 Shaw (1933, p. 15) refers to these as G. leptoceros. 



Libya. We have no positive information on its presence in east- 

 ern Fezzan and in the Libyan Desert proper (Lavauden, 1926, p. 21) . 

 Joleaud (1929, p. 446) refers to its occurrence in the dunes of Tripoli- 

 tania and in the Libyan Desert. Its range includes the sandy plains 

 of the interior of Libya (Zammerano, 1930, p. 31 ; De Beaux, 1935, 

 p. 13). 



Algeria and Tunisia. Sir Edmund Loder (1894, pp. 473-476) 

 found this species occurring singly and in small bands of as many 

 as 5 individuals in the sand dunes of Oued Souf, about 100 miles 

 south of Biskra. A specimen secured here became the type of G. 

 loderi. Pease (1897, p. 813) states: 



The Rhime (Gazella loderi) ... is the common Gazelle of the Sahara. 

 Enormous numbers are killed by the Arabs in the neighbourhood of Rhadamis, 

 and their skins dressed and dyed with a dye made from the rind of pome- 

 granates and exported from Rhadamis. They are to be found throughout the 

 region of the great Ergs and everywhere in the Sahara sands where there 

 is vegetation sufficient to support them. The only places where they are to be 

 met with, I believe, north of El Oued Souf, are to the south-west of Bou 

 Chaama and near Sef el, Menadi. A number of their horns are always on 

 sale at Biskra and sometimes the skins. 



Whitaker (1897, p. 817) says that in Tunisia- 



it seems to be true desert species, never occurring out of the sand-dune country, 

 where it replaces G. dorcas .... 



Herr Spatz, who has resided for several years in the south of Tunis, and 

 is well acquainted with this Gazelle, informs me that it is common in the 

 inland country of the extreme south of the Regency, being first met with at 

 about 25 to 30 miles south of the Chott Djerid. In the districts where it 

 occurs it is plentiful, and is generally to be found in small herds .... The 

 nomad Arabs . . . kill a good many, and every year some 500 to 600 pairs 

 of horns of this species are brought by the caravans coming from the in- 

 terior to Gabes, where they find a ready sale among the French soldiery. 



Hartert (1913, p. 33) writes of its occurrence as follows: 



It is found in the Erg between Biskra and El-Oued, and is common . . . 

 between Ouargla and Rhadames. We found it also among the dunes south of 

 El-Golea, and between El-Golea and Ghardai'a. It is probably found in every 



