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ed. 7, p. 272, 1914; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, 

 vol. iii, p. 209, 1898 ; Lydekker, Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 p. 344, 1899, Game Animals of-Africa, p. 268, 1908 ; 0. Neumann, 

 Sitzber. Gcs. Nat. Freunde, 1906, p. 238; Alexander, From 

 Niger to Nile, vol. ii, p. 393, 1907. 



Gazella mohr, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 233, 1862 ; 

 Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 39, 1872; Brooke, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 648. 



Gazella nanguer, Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, 

 p. 158, 1869. 



Nanger dama, Lataste, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xxxix, p. 174, 

 1885, by inference from context. 



NANGUER, or NANGER (Senegal). 



Type of Dama, Bennett, and Nanger (as represented by 

 the Tunisian race). 



Typical locality north-west Africa, probably in the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Chad (teste O. Neumann). 



Shoulder-height from about 36 to 37 inches. Horns 

 comparatively short, thick, curving strongly backwards at 

 first, and hooked inwards and forwards at tips ; no dark 

 flank or pygal band, and the white of the buttocks, which is 

 very variable in extent, including the tail, of which the 

 extreme tip may be fawn ; general colour which may be 

 restricted to neck and back deep rufous. 



The range includes the desert tracts of north-western 

 and northern Africa, from Senegal and Gambia to Dongola. 

 The four races here recognised are distinguishable as 

 follows : 



A. Rufous area extending over body and flanks, well 



denned from white. 



a. Sides of thighs white, the rufous of body not 



joining that of hind-limbs G. d. dama. 



b. Sides of thighs and legs rufous, continuous with 



that of body. 



a 1 . Rufous area large and forward intrusion of 



white of rump small G. d. mhorr. 



6 2 . Rufous area more restricted, and forward 



intrusion of white of rump greater G. d. permista. 



B. Rufous area mainly restricted to neck and fore 



part of back, imperfectly defined from white ... G. d. ruficollis. 



