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sometimes are very heavy, and perhaps the moisture obtained from the grass 

 in the early morning is sufficient for its needs. Both sexes carry horns, 

 the male's rather straight, and annulated nearly to the tips, which are 

 inclined to turn slightly forward. Those of the females are straighter 

 and more slender. The average length of the male's horns would be about 

 1 1 inches along the curve ; that of the females possibly 7. In colour there 

 is considerable variation among individuals, but it is not easy to explain 

 the cause. The typical style has a broad, conspicuous chestnut band 

 running lengthwise on the body just above the white of the belly. But 

 certain of these gazelles, evidently of equal age and the same sex, taken at 

 the same time and place, and in the same condition of coat, were entirely 

 without this distinguishing mark. It is difficult to account for this, unless 

 it is an evidence of individual variation, for the specimens were not con- 

 fined to any especial locality ; nor was it an indication of age, for fully adult 

 animals were destitute of the stripe, and, as I have already said, neither 

 was it confined to either sex. Pelzeln's gazelle is a handsome, graceful 

 creature, very fleet of foot, and an ornament to any locality in which it 

 dwells, but its flesh, I regret to say, was possessed of little flavour, not often 

 tender, and always destitute of fat. D. G. Elliot. 



Loder's Gazelle (Gazella leptoceros) 



Rhim or Reem of Arabs of Algeria ; Ghazal abiad (White Gazelle) 

 of Arabs of Tunis and Egypt 



Loder's gazelle is a very well-marked species. It is not a large 

 animal, not larger than the dorcas gazelle. Its general colour is very 

 pale pinkish buff or sandy, which lightens to cream-white on the belly 

 and on the inner side of the limbs. The face-marks and the broad lateral 

 stripe along the barrel are scarcely discernible, as they are hardly deeper in 



