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p. 255, 1914 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 238, 1893, Great 

 and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 1899, Game Animals of 

 Africa, p. 253, 1908 ; Hoyos, Zu denAulihan, p. 178, pi. x, fig. 1 ; 

 Elliot, Field Mus. Zool. Publ. vol. i, p. 119, 1897 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 133, pi. Ixii, 1898; 

 Drake-Brockman, Mammals of Somali, p. 77, 1910. 

 Oacella pelzelni, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. viii) p. 77, 1907. 



DHERO (Somali) ; PELZELN'S GAZELLE. 



Typical locality maritime plains of northern Sornaliland, 

 to which zone the species is restricted, being replaced by the 

 next in the interior. 



Type in Vienna Museum. 



Size medium ; shoulder-height probably about 25 inches. 

 Horns of medium length, evenly divergent, with a slight 

 backward curvature, and a rather more marked forward bend 

 at tips ; general colour brownish fawn with a rufous tinge ; 

 forehead and median face-stripe dark fawn; no nose-spot; 

 lateral face-stripes short and somewhat indistinct; flank- 

 band rufous brown, slightly deeper in tone than back ; pygal 

 band distinct, brown. Skull relatively narrow, with long 

 narrow nasals, articulating broadly with premaxillse ; basal 

 length 6J, maximum width 3, length from muzzle to orbit 

 3 inches. Horns measure from 11 J to 14 inches in length, 

 with a basal girth of from 3J to 4J, and a tip-to- tip interval 

 of 4j to 6 J inches. 



88. 6. 20. 9. Head-skin, in spirit. Berbera district. 



Presented ly E. Lort Phillips, Esq., 1888. 



91. 6. 20. 6. Skin, mounted. Berbera district. 



Presented by Herr G. Menges, 1891. 



91. 7. 29. 2. Frontlet and horns. Northern Somaliland. 



Presented ly W. F. Sinclair, Esq., 1891. 



92. 2. 5. 5. Skin and head-skin. Berbera district; 

 collected by Lieut.-Col. H. G. C. Swayne. 



Presented ly Dr. P. L. Sclater, 1892. 



94. 2. 21. 8. Skin and two head-skins. Same locality 



and collector. Same donor, 1894. 



93. 6. 30. 6. Skin. Webi Shebeli Valley. 



Presented ly Gen. Sir A. H. Paget, G.C.B., 1893. 

 6. 5. 4. 15. Skin. Berbera district. 



Presented ly Dr. E. E. Drake-Brockman, 1906. 



