336 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol, IX. 



No. IV.— A NEW GAZELLE. 



When in Biskra, Algeria, some two years since, I was struck by the curious 

 formation of a pair of Gazelle horns which was shown me. Having collected 



a series of these horns, it 

 seemed to me that there could 

 be little doubt of the animal 

 being unknown to science, 

 although the evidence of the 

 horns was very slight, the 

 skull and skin being then 

 unobtainable. 



Sir Edmund G. iLoder has 

 been fortunate enough to 

 shoot some specimens, a de- 

 scription of which now ap- 

 pears in the proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society. 



For the information of 

 those of your readers to 

 whom the Society's publica- 

 tions are not immediately 

 available, I append an illus- 

 tration of this new Gazelle 

 now known as Gazella loderi. 



The animal shot by Sir 

 Edmund G. Loder stood 

 about 2 feet 4 inches at shoul- 



Gasella loderi. 



der and weighed about 34 lbs. It is interesting that this new Gazelle should 

 be discovered within 7 days' journey of London. 



The large game of the country consists of Boar, Lion, Wild Sheep (Ovis 

 tragelaphus) , two other varieties of Gazelles (6r. dorcas, G, cuvieri), and Addax ; 

 the latter animal however is very little known to European sportsmen. 



ROWLAND WARD. 

 166, Piccadilly, London, 

 dth October, 1894. 



