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GREAT GAME OF THE WORLD, 



SCEMMERRING'S GAZELLE (Gazella soemmerringi). 



(Somali name " Awal.") 

 [Sir VICTOR BROOKE, Bart, P.Z.S., 1873, p. 549.] 



HAIR smooth and short. Facial band blackish, slightly rufous 

 between the horns ; light facial streak white, well marked ; dark 

 facial streak blackish, very definite, running through the eye and 

 leaving its upper end as a black spot isolated above it. A spot below 

 the eye, chin, throat, and a spot in front of the neck white ; lateral 

 bands wanting ; breast, belly, tail, and rump white, the white of the 

 latter encroaching into the sandy fawn-colour of the rest of the 

 body and the haunches. Knee-brushes well developed. Ears long, 

 bordered externally with black. Horns in the male lyrate, massive, 

 and strongly annulated, well developed but less massive in the female. 

 Height about 30 in. 



Habitat Abyssinian coast of the Red Sea, Danakil and Somali 

 countries, Berber, and East Senaar (Henglin). 



