ORDER ARTIODACTYLA : EVEN-TOED UNGULATES 711 



"While these things are still possible it is obvious that extermi- 

 nation eventually will be the . . . result." (H. F. Varian, in litt., 

 March 10, 1933.) 



"The estimate made [by Col. A. Brandao de Mello in a recent 

 letter] in regard to the sable I think is extremely high [750-800] 

 .... I think if this was cut in half it would be on the high side, 

 but I am glad to notice that the Government is at last rigorously 

 enforcing protection. . . . You will notice that they are only allow- 

 ing four to be shot each year and a price of $5000 for each head 

 taken out. Therefore I do not think that number will be decreased 

 by ordinary sportsmen or Museums." (Arthur S. Vernay, in litt., 

 January 18, 1937.) 



Addax (Eng., Fr., Ital.). Antilope Adax (Sp.) Mendesan- 



tilope (Ger.) 



ADDAX NASOMACULATUS (Blaihville) 



A[ntilope] Nasomaculata Blainville, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomatique Paris 1816, 

 pp. 75, 78. (Type locality not given; regarded by Lydekker and Blaine 

 (1914, vol. 3, p. 148) as "probably Senegambia.") 



SYNONYM: Antilope addax Cretzschmar (1826). 



FIGS.: Geoffrey and Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., vol. 6, pis. 388, 389, 1824; 

 Cretzschmar, 1826, pi. 7; Lichtenstein, 1827-1834, pi. 2; Hemprich and 

 Ehrenberg, decas 2, pi. 4, 1833; Gray, Gleanings Knowsley Menagerie, pi. 

 18, 1850; Royal Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 280, fig., 1894; Bryden, 1899, pi. 11, 

 fig. 4; Sclater and Thomas, 1899, vol. 4, pi. 86, pp. 83, 85, figs. 95-97; Lydek- 

 ker, 1908, pi. 11, fig. 4, p. 303, fig. 63; Selous, 1914, pi. 28; Antonius, 19296, 

 pp. 381-382, figs. 9-10; Zammarano, 1930, p. 33, fig.; Brocklehurst, 1931, 

 pi. facing p. 58; Maydon, 1932, pis. 23, 41, 42, 131; Ward, 1935, p. 213, fig.; 

 Malbrant, 1936, pi. 11, lower fig.; Pocock, 1937, p. 672, fig.; Leister, 1938, 

 p. 89, fig. 



This fine antelope of the Sahara is suffering from a general 

 reduction in numbers and restriction of range. In all the vast terri- 

 tory it occupies, there appears to be not a single game reserve. 



General color in summer sandy above, whitish below, with a 

 brown patch on the forehead ; in winter the coat is gray and a heavy 

 mass of long brown hair is developed on the neck, shoulders, and 

 forehead; a streak across the face below the eyes, the lips, and a 

 spot on the outer surface of each ear, white; hoofs very wide and 

 shallow. Horns spirally twisted and closely ringed; record length 

 on front curve, 43 inches. Height at shoulder, about 42 inches. 

 (Ward, 1935, p. 214.) 



The range extends more or less throughout the Sahara region, 

 from Senegambia and Algeria east to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 

 The evidence for the former occurrence of the species in Palestine 

 and Arabia is inconclusive. 



