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land, p. 314, 1895 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 108, 1892, 

 ed. 6, p. 271, 1910, ed. 7, p. 269, 1914; LydeJcker, Horns and 

 Hoofs, p. 236, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 

 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 266, 1908; Donaldson Smith, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 868 ; Hoyos, Zu den Aulihan, p. 179, 

 pi. x, fig. 6, 1895 ; Elliot, Field Mus. Zool. Publ. vol. i, p. 122, 

 1897 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 195, 

 pi. Ixx, 1898; Anderson and de Winton, Zool. Egypt, Mamm, 

 p. 347, pi. Ixii, 1902 ; Rothschild, Powell-Cotton's Sporting Trip 

 through Abyssinia, p. 473, 1902 ; 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. 

 Freunde, 1906, p. 240 ; PococJc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 887 ; 

 Drake-Brockman, Mammals of Somali, p. 78, 1910. 



Gacella soemmerringi, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. 

 Zool. Pub. vol. viii) p. 78, 1907. 



Oazella (Nanger) soemmerringi, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 1912, p. 260. 



AOUL ; SOEMMERRING'S GAZELLE. 



Typical locality Tal E' Sabb, Abyssinia. 



Shoulder-height reaching to 35 \ inches. Horns moder- 

 ately long, heavily ridged, with a subcircular cross-section ; 

 bending outwards to a greater or less extent, and more or 

 less strongly hooked inwards, or inwards and forwards, at 

 tips. General colour uniform pale fawn, typically without 

 dark flank or pygal. bands ; forehead and median face-stripe, 

 as well as lateral face-stripes, black or blackish fulvous, the 

 latter very narrow, the black being continued on to sides of 

 muzzle ; light stripes white ; backs of ears whitish, bordered 

 and tipped with black ; white of buttocks occupying a broad 

 .area, intruding far into the body-colour, and completely 

 cutting it off from tail, which is white at the root, with the 

 terminal crest black. Basal length of skull about 8J inches, 

 maximum breadth 4J, length from muzzle to orbit 5| inches. 

 The maximum record horn-length (1910) is 23 inches. 



The range extends from the Eed Sea littoral in the 

 neighbourhood of Suakin through Abyssinia and Somaliland 

 to the Sennar district of the Sudan. 



The named races are distinguishable as follows : 



A. No dark pygal band. 



a. Horns shorter, much bowed outwards. 

 a 1 . Size smaller. 



a 2 . Colour yellowish Isabella ; nose 



rusty black G. s. soemmerringi. 



III. H 



