346 Great and Small Game of Africa 



Edmi Gazelle {Gazella cuvieri) 



Ecfmi or Admi of Arabs (Algeria) ; in Tunis, Edem 



This is emphatically a mountain animal, and is found in Morocco, 

 Algeria, and Western Tunis. It is larger and heavier built than the 

 dorcas gazelle, the adult males sometimes attaining a height of 31 inches 

 at the shoulder. The horns of the male reach as much as 14-1 inches. 

 It is more fulvous than the dorcas gazelle, and more sheep-like in build. 

 Mr. E. N. Buxton states that Cuvier's gazelle " climbs like a chamois 

 to the tops of the highest mountains, on the rockiest ground, and is 

 often found in the juniper forests on the mountain slopes." The present 

 writer once obtained a live specimen from the cork-forested mountains, 

 6000 to 7000 feet in height, on the borders of Tunis and Algeria. 



H. H. Johnston. 



Speke's Gazelle (Gazella spekei) 

 Dhero of the Somalis 



Speke's gazelle inhabits the high plateau of Somaliland, ranging from 

 the Golis Mountains south to Ogaden — the Ogo or cold country of the 

 natives. It is also to be found north of the range in the vicinity of Laferug, 

 where it meets the lowland species. This species is smaller than its 

 southern relative, and in appearance differs from it in various particulars, 

 not the least of which is its peculiarly wrinkled nose, possessed by both 

 sexes, but greatly modified in the female ; and this feature would easily 

 cause it to be distinguished from all other known species of gazelle. 



In its habits it resembles Pelzeln's gazelle, and frequents the same kind 

 of country — bare stony stretches with bunches of stunted, wiry grass 

 scattered here and there — and it is very seldom met with among bushes or 



