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1873, p. 540 ; Sclater, List Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 140, 1883 ; 

 Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 232, 1893, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 344, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 256, 

 1908, Suppl. p. 13, 1911 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 159, 

 1896, ed. 6, p. 262, 1910, ed. 7, p. 260, 1907 ; Sclater and Thomas, 

 Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 163, pi. Ixvii, 1898; Thomas, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1903, vol. i, p. 301 ; Alexander, From Niger to Nile, 

 vol. ii, p. 393, 1907; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 887, 

 1912, p. 5. 



Gazella (Eudorcas) laevipes senegalensis, Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. 

 Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, p. 159, 1869. 



Gazella (Korin) rufifrons, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 39, 

 1872. 



Type of Eudorcas and Korin. 



Typical locality Senegambia. 



Size medium, build relatively stout. Horns com- 

 paratively short, heavily ringed, evenly divergent, slightly 

 curved backwards, and turning forwards at the tips ; general 

 colour deep sandy rufous, brightening into rich rufous on 

 the lateral and broad median face-stripes ; no dark nose- 

 spot; light face -stripes buff; a broad sandy buff light 

 flank-band, below which is a narrow black one ; pygal band 

 nearly obsolete ; root of tail sandy. Skull with rather short 

 and (especially posteriorly) broad nasals, and narrow nasal 

 aperture ; basal length 7 inches, maximum breadth 3, length 

 from orbit to muzzle 4 inches. Length of good horns 11 to 

 13| inches, basal girth 4J to 5J, tip-to-tip interval 3f to 

 *7J inches. 



The alleged absence of knee-tufts is denied by Pocock ; * 

 their presence in G. r. Icevipes being mentioned by Lonnberg, 

 as cited under the heading of that race. 



The range extends from Senegambia and Nigeria to 

 Kordofan and other parts of the Eastern Sudan. 



The named races are distinguishable as follows : 



A. General colour rufous fawn. 



a. Colour darker ; more buff on face G. r. rufifrons. 



b. Colour paler; less buff on face G. r. Icevipes. 



B. General colour ochery fawn. 



a. General colour pure ochery G. r. hasleri. 



b. General colour browner. 



a'. Colour lighter G. r. kanuri. 



b'. Colour deeper G. r. centralis. 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 6. 



