816 ON THE GAZELLES OF TUNISIA. [Nov. 17, 
of Ghardimaou, on the Algerio-Tunisian frontier, from both of 
which places M. Blanc, the naturalist in Tunis, tells me he has 
received specimens in the flesh. I myself have also been offered 
Edmi-shooting on an estate only some twenty miles or so south of 
Tunis. It seems evident, therefore, that the species has a wide 
range in the Regency, although perhaps it is nowhere very 
abundant. 
In Algeria, as shown by Mr. E. N. Buxton * and Sir Edmund 
Loder *, the Edmi occurs on the mountains of the Atlas, notably 
on the Aurés range, and I myself have seen freshly-killed 
specimens of it in the Biskra market; but probably the species has 
a more limited range in Algeria than further east, in Tunisia, 
where the character of the country, and more particularly of the 
mountains, is more compatible with the requirements of this 
animal. 
G. cuviert is to be found either in small herds or singly, and 
occasionally, though not as a rule, at a considerable elevation. On 
the Djebel Selloum and Djebel Semama, near Kasrin, both of 
which mountains are nearly 4000 feet above sea-level, I found the 
Gazelles about halfway up. These mountains, although steep in 
places and with some very rugged scarps, are in great part well- 
wooded with Aleppo pines, and on the lower slopes with a thick 
undergrowth of the usual maquis vegetation. In this brushwood 
the Gazelles easily escape detection and are naturally not very 
often seen. Although fond of cover, the Hdmi will adapt itself to 
circumstances, and seems equally at home on the arid mountains 
of the south, where there is but little vegetation, and that merely 
of a dwarf description, affording slight shelter. In the spring, 
when my hunting-trips after Aoudad (Quis tragelaphus) and Edmi 
have taken place, there has always been a little water on these 
mountains; butfor some menths of the year, I am told, the water- 
courses are dry, and the animals then, should they wish to drink, 
must travel some distance. That both these species, however, 
shift their quarters constantly I feel convinced, force of cireum- 
stances rendering them as nomad as the Arabs themselves. 
The Edmi is very much larger than the Dorcas Gazelle, its 
weight being almost double. Its coat is darker in colour and 
with rather longer and coarser hair, while its knees, besides having 
very strongly developed brushes, show distinct callosity. The 
horns in the adult male are very stout and deeply annulated, and 
generally with but little curve, measuring about 13 inches, or 
even more in fine specimens. Those of the female are much more 
slender and smoother, but sometimes of fair length, some in my 
possession measuring 11 inches. ; 
GaZELLA LODERI, Thos. (P. Z.8. 1894, p. 470, pl. xxxii.) 
This pale desert Gazelle, only recently scientifically described, 
and named by Mr. Oldfield Thomas after Sir Edmund Loder, is 
1 See Buxton, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 363. 
* See Leder, P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 473. 
