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ON A NEW GAZELLE FROM PALESTINE. 



[Dec. i; 



coarse haii', the markings, knee-brushes, and tone of body-colour 

 all just as in that animal, of which a figure and description had 

 been published in the ' Book of Antelopes ' *. 



But in size of skull and in the development of the horns the 

 Palestine Gazelle was markedly inferior to that from the Atlas, 

 as might be seen from the measurements given below, while the 

 curvature of the horns was distinctly difierent. In G. cuvieri the 

 horns, which might attain to 12 or 13 inches in height and have 

 up to 24 well- developed rings, were very slightly curved back- 

 wards below and equally slightly — indeed scarcely at all — recurved 

 forwards at their tips. In the Palestine form, on the other hand, 

 the horns in an old male were short, thick basally, and markedly 

 S-shaped, curved backwards below, and distinctly recurved for- 

 wards at their tips ; the ridges, which were less well defined than 

 in cimieri, numbered only about 10-12. Viewed from in front, 

 the horns were evenly divergent, without lyration. 



Text-fig. 90. 



Skull and horns of Gazella merriUi. 



The horns of the female were of fair relative development, nearly 

 four inches in length, and about half an inch in diameter at the 

 base, smooth throughout, slightly cvirved upwards. 



The skull was decidedly smaller than in G. cuvieri, the nasals 

 shorter, and the premaxillary bones did not in either specimen 



* Vol. iii. p. 109 (1898). 



