60 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



XII. GAZELLA MUSCATENSIS. 



Gazella muscatensis, Brooke, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1874, p. 141, pi. xxii; 

 Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 179, 1893, Great and Small Game 

 of Europe, etc. p. 204, 1901; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, 

 p. 451, 1903, vol. ii, p. 317 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of 

 Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 155, pi. Ixv, 1898. 



Typical locality Muscat, Oman, eastern Arabia. 



Nearly allied to G. arabica, but smaller the shoulder- 

 height being only about 21 to 22 inches and with the tips of 

 the relatively short horns markedly inturned. General colour 

 dark rufous fawn, closely approximating to the smoky fawn 

 of the Aden race of arabica^; dark flank-band blackish, light 

 one obsolete ; median face-stripe deep rufous with a blackish 

 nose-patch, light lateral stripes narrow and well defined, but 

 the dark external ones not defined from fawn of cheeks ; limbs 

 white only on inner surfaces of upper segment of front pair 

 and thighs, with brownish knee-tufts. Basal length of adult 

 female skull 5f , maximum breadth 2J-, length from muzzle 

 to orbit 2| inches. 



75. 10. 7. 1. Skul], imperfect, bones of trunk, and skin. 

 Muscat, Oman ; collected by Lieut.-Col. Sir C. B. Euan 

 Smith, K.C.B. Type. Purchased (Zoological Society), 1875. 



94. 3. 9. 5. Skin, mounted. Rhode, east of Oman. 



Presented by Lieut.-Col. A. S. Gf. Jayakar, 1894. 



94. 3. 9. 6. Skin, mounted, female. Sharkeyeh, east of 

 Oman. Same history. 



94. 3. 9. 7. Skull, with horns, and skin. Khode. 



Same history. 



94. 3. 9. 8-9. Two skulls, with horns, and skins, female. 

 Khode. Same history. 



XIII. GAZELLA MARICA. 



Gazella marica, Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xix, p. 162, 

 1897 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 95, 

 pi. Ivi, 1898 ; Lydekker, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. 

 p. 201, 1901 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 88. 



KHIM (in common with several other gazelles). 



Typical locality Nejd, central Arabia. 

 A pale-coloured desert form, of the approximate size of 

 muscatensis, but with longer and more regularly incurving 



