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Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 316, 1801 ; Turton, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. 



vol. i, p. 114, 1802 : teste 0. Neumann. 

 Gazella merrilli, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. ii, p. 347, Abs. 



p. 19 ; Carruthers, Field, vol. cxiv. p, 1135, 1909. 

 Gazella gazella, 0. Neumann, Sitzler. Qes. nat. Freunde, 1906, 



p. 245. 



Typical locality Syria. 



The Palestine representative of cuvieri, from which this 



FIG. 13. SKULL AND HORNS OF PALESTINE GAZELLE (Gazella gazella). 

 From Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904. 



species is distinguished by its somewhat inferior size and 

 smaller and rather differently curved horns. Coat, general 

 colour, and colour-pattern as in cuvieri; horns relatively 

 short, thick basally, and distinctly S-shaped, curving back- 

 wards below the tips, and forwards at the tips themselves, 

 with about 10 or 12 not very strongly pronounced ridges 

 (against from 20 to 24 bolder ones on the comparatively 

 straight horns of cuvieri). Skull smaller than in that 

 species, with the premaxillse stopping short of the nasals, 

 instead of forming a broad articulation with them ; basal 

 length 5| inches (170 mm.), maximum width 3J (88 mm.), 



