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VEUTEBRATA. 



THE ARIEL GAZELLE. 



When taken young, wild and timid as the gazelle is, it is readily tamed, and becomes familiar 

 and quite at ease. Tame gazelles are frequently seen at large in the court-yards of houses in Syria, 

 and their beauty, exquisite form, and playfulness render them great favorites. 



This animal, formerly regarded as a distinct species, is now held by most naturalists to be a 

 variety only of the African (Gazelle. 



The [babel Gazelle, G. Isabella, formerly supposed to be a variety of the Dorcas Gazelle, m 

 considered a distinct species by Gray. It is found in Egypt and Kordofan. 



The P allab or Rooye-Boc — the Beljuan of the Gaffers — Antilope melampus, is a magnificent 

 species, four and a half feet long and three high. The general color is a deep red, the under 

 part- being white. It inhabits Caffraria and the country of the Bechuanas, living on the open 

 plain- in families of six or eight individuals. They run with amazing swiftness, and occasionally 

 leap like the Spring-Boca, which they resemble in their general habits and manners. They are 

 extremely numerous on the elevated plains in the neighborhood of Latakoo, and constitute a 

 favorite object of the chase \\ith the native-, as their flesh, though deficient in fat, is well-tasted 

 and wholesome. Pallah or Phaala is the native name of the animal, but the mixed Hottentots, 

 who travel into that country from the < ape, distinguish it by the Dutch term Rooye-Boc or Bed 

 I. ick, on accounl of the prevailing color of its hair. 



The Sprino-Boo or SpringkBi ok, Prong-Boc, Showy Goat or Tsebe, is perhaps the mosl 



era! and the most beautifully varied in its colors, of all the antilope tribe. Imagination 



not conceive a quadruped more light and airy in form, more delicate in. its proportions, 



or whose movements are executed with more natural ease and grace, than the Spring-Boc, or as 



