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Range co-extensive with that of subfamily. 



The four species are distinguishable as follows: 



A. Horns straight, or nearly so ; neck coloured like body. 



a. Size large ; body fawn ; limbs whitish, with black 



markings. 



a'. Throat frequently with a tuft ; black nose-patch 

 and eye- stripes uniting below so as to form a 

 "head-stall" to muzzle 0. gazella. 



b'. No throat-tuft ; nose-patch and eye-stripes not 



uniting below Q. beisa. 



b. Size smaller ; body whitish ; limbs, with exception 



of pasterns, brown O. leucoryx. 



B. Horns sabre-shaped; neck and front of shoulders 



coloured differently to body O. algazel. 



I. OEYX GAZELLA. 



Capra gazella, Linn., Syst. Nat ed. 10, vol. i, p. 69, 1758, ed. 12, 

 vol. i, p. 96, 1766 ; Miiller, Natursyst. vol. i, p. 412, 1773. 



Antilope bezoartica, Pallas, Misc. Zool. p. 8, 1766 ; Miiller, Natur- 

 syst., Suppl. p. 55, 1776 ; Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. 

 p. 538, 1777; Gatterer, Brev. Zool. vol. i, p. 79, 1780; nee 

 Linn. 



Gazella recticornis, Pallas* Nov. Comm. Ac. Petrop. vol. xiii, p. 468, 

 1766. 



Antilope recticornis, Erxleben, Syst. Eegn. Anim. p. 272, 1777 ; 

 Gatterer, Brev. Zool. vol. i, p. 78, 1786. 



Antilope oryx, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii, pp. 16 and 61, 1777 ; 

 Zimmermann, Geogr. Geschichte, vol. ii, p. 107, 1780 ; Hermann, 

 Tabl. Affin. Anim. p. 108, 1783 ; Schreber, Sdugthiere, pi. cclvii, 

 1784 ; Boddaert, Elenclius Anim. p. 139, 1785 ; Gmelin, Linn.'s 

 Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 189, 1788 ; Kerr, Linn.'s Anim. Kingdom, 

 p. 315, 1792; Donndorff, Zool. Beytrdge, vol. i, p. 636, 1792; 

 Link, Beytrdge Naturgesch. vol. ii, p. 99, 1795 ; Daudin, Lace- 

 pede's Buffon, vol. xiv, p. 182, 1799 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. ii, 

 pt. 2, p. 302, 1801 ; Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. xxiv, 

 Tabl. p. 32, 1804, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 473, 1822 ; Turton, 

 Linn.'s Syst. Nat. p. 114, 1806 ; G. Fischer, Zoognosia, vol. iii, 

 p. 425, 1814 ; Afzelius, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal. vol. vii, p. 219, 

 1815; Goldfuss, Schreber' 's Sdugthiere, vol. v, p. 1177, 1818; 

 Schinz, Cuvier's Thierreich, vol. i, p. 391, 1821, Synop. Mamm. 

 vol. ii, p. 434, 1845, Mon. Antilop. p. 31, pi. xxxv, 1848; 

 Desmoulins, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 444, 1822; 

 Burchell, Travels in S. Africa, vol. ii, p. 23, 1824 ; Lesson, 

 Man. Mamm. p. 385, 1827 ; /. B. Fischer, Synop. Mamm. 



* " Cornu .... Gazellce recticornis, quam hodie sola .... 

 Africa alit." Although this has been quoted as Gazella recticornis 

 by Erxleben, and also by Sclater and Thomas, it does not appear 

 to have been intended as a technical name, any more than does 

 " Gazellce .... Indicce" in a later passage. 



