ANTILOPIN^ 55 



26 to 27 inches. Horns relatively short, thick, strongly 

 ridged, but little divergent, with a very slight backward 

 curvature, and a small upward and forward bend at the tips ; 

 coat rather long, rough, and coarse ; general colour dull 

 fawn ; median face-stripe brownish fawn, with a large black 

 nose-patch, in front of which the muzzle is whitish; ears 

 long and pointed, with the backs fawn; flank and pygal 

 bands distinct and darker than back. Basal length of skull 

 about 7f inches, maximum breadnh 3|-, length from muzzle 

 to orbit 4|- inches. Fine horns measure from 11^ to 14|j^ 

 inches in length, with a basal girth of from 3j to 5, and a 

 tip-to tip interval of from 3| to 8 inches. 



The distributional area includes the mountainous districts 

 of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. 



53. 8. 29. 97. Skull, with horns, and skin, immature 

 female. Mogador; presented, when alive, by W. Will- 

 shire, Esq. in 1839 to the Zoological Society, in whose 

 menagerie it died in May of the following year. Type. 



Purchased {Zoological Society), 1853. 



55. 12. 29. 400. Skin, mounted. N. Africa ; from an 



animal presented to the Zoological Society by H.M. Queen 



Victoria. Purchased {Zoological Society), 1855. 



66. 12. 30. 24. Skeleton. North Africa. 



Purchased {Zoological Society), 1866. 

 94. 4. 18. 1-3. Three frontlets, with horns. Near 

 Biskra, Algerian Sahara. 



Presented hy J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1894. 

 94. 8. 1. 1. Skin, mounted. Near Biskra. 



Presented hy J. I. S. Whitaker, Esq., 1894. 



8. 4. 11. 1. Skin, mounted, and skull. Mettili Eange, 



Barilla, Algeria. Presented hy E. Richardson Cox, Esq., 1908. 



8. 4. 11. 2. Skin, female. Same locality. Same history. 



X. GAZELLA GAZELLA. 



Antilope gazella, Pallas, Misc. Zool. p. 7, 1766, ex "La Gazelle," 

 Buffon, Hist. Nat. vol. xii, p. 249, pi. xxiii, 1764; Boddaert, 

 Elenchus Aniin. p. 140, 1785; Kerr, Linn.'s Anim. Kingdom, 

 p. 316, 1792; Bomidorff, Zool. Beytrdge, vol. i, p. 638, 1792; 

 Latham and Davies, Faunula Indica, p. 4, 1795 ; Bechstein, 

 VebersicM vierfuss. Thiere, vol. ii, p. 642, 1800; Shaw, Gen. 



