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inhabitant of the great dunes. The bands are not large (15 indi- 

 viduals at the most) . An authorization from the Director General 

 of Agriculture is required for hunting this animal. (Lavauden, 1924, 

 pp. 22-23, distr. map; 1932, p. 22.) 



FIG. 66. Addax (Addax nasomaculatus) . After Brehm, etc. 



The present habitat in Tunisia is the extreme southern part, in 

 the Grand Erg Oriental, where the animal is quite rare. The cause of 

 depletion is the progress of civilization. Hunting is allowed only on 

 special permit; permits are given for the revictualling of expeditions. 

 (Conservator of Forests, Tunisia, in litt., September, 1936.) 



Libya. The Addax "certainly existed west of our [Egyptian] 

 frontier at the commencement of the Turco-Italian War as Prince 

 Imer Toussoum was actually hunting them, probably in the vicinity 

 of Wadi Marah 130 miles S. of Derna when that war started. Don 

 Bates who was through that country sometime prior to 1911 gives 

 Addax . 



