816 ON TUB GAZlil-LES 01;' TUNISIA.. [Nor. 17, 



of Ghardiinaoii, on the Algerio-Tunisian frontier, from both of 

 ■which ])laces 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 Eegency, 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 Aur^s range, and I myself have seen freshly-killed 

 specimens of it in the Uiskra 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. 



6. cuvieri 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 abo\e sea-]e\ el, I found the 

 Gazelles about halfway up. These mountains, although steep in 

 places and vith some very rugged scarps, are in great part well- 

 wooded with Aleppo pines, and on the lower slopes with a thick 

 undergrowth of tlie usual maguis vegetation. In Ibis brushwood 

 the Gazelles easily escape detection and are naturally not verj- 

 often seen. Although fond of cover, the Edmi 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 (Ovis tracjelaplnts) and Edmi 

 have taken place, there has always been a little water on these 

 mountains ; but for some months 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 1 feel convinced, force of circum- 

 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 ha^■iug 

 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. 



Gazeli-a lodeui, Thos. (P. Z. S. ]8'J4, p. 470, pi. xxxii.) 

 This pale desert Gazelle, only recently scientifically described, 

 and named by Mr. Oldfield Thomas after !Sir Edmund Loder, is 



' See Buxlon, V. Z. S. 1800, p. \i&i. 

 " Sec Loder, P. Z. S. 1894, ].. 473. 



