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SGEMMERING'S ANTELOPE. 



Gasella Sosmmenngii. 



FLATK XXV1IJL 



Antilope Soemmeringii, RuppeFs A/riJca ZooL Atlas, foL 1& 



A VERY beautiful and delicately coloured animal, 

 standing about two feet seven inches high at the 

 shoulder, and in length about four feet and a half. 

 The colour of the upper parts, outsides of the ears 

 and legs, a delicate reddish-grey Isabella colour; 

 the lower parts, insides of the limbs and buttocks, 

 pure white. The forehead extending along the ridge 

 of the nose, deep browaish-black, with a pale line 

 above each eye, and a darker streak from the lower 

 angle of the eye to the nostril. Inhabits north eastern 

 Africa. 



Another series of Antelopes have received from 

 Major Smith the title of " The Antelopine Group;" 

 and that naturalist retains also the generic title of 

 " Antelope." They are much allied to the last, but 

 differing in some lesser modifications of form, as in 

 the horns being scarcely ever lyrate, having no dark 

 bands on the sides, &c. ; they are more decidedly 



