60 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Xri. GAZELLA MUSCATENSIS. 



Gazella muscatensis, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 141, pi. xxii; 

 Lydeklcer, Horns and Hoofs, p. 179, 1893, Great and Small Game 

 of Europe, etc. p. 204, 1901; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, 

 p. 451, 1903, vol. ii, p. 317 ; Sclater and Thomas, BooTc of 

 Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 155, pi. Ixv, 1898. 



Typical locality Muscat, Oman, eastern Arabia. 



Nearly allied to G. arabica, but smaller — the shoulder- 

 height being only about 21 to 22 inches — and with the tips of 

 the relatively short horns markedly inturned. General colour 

 dark rufous fawn, closely approximating to the smoky fawn 

 of the Aden race of arabica ; dark flank-band blackish, light 

 one obsolete ; median face-stripe deep rufous with a blackish 

 nose-patch, light lateral stripes narrow and well defined, but 

 the dark external ones not defined from fawn of cheeks ; limbs 

 white only on inner surfaces of upper segment of front pair 

 and thighs, with brownish knee-tufts. Basal length of adult 

 female skull 5f, maximum breadth 2|^, length from muzzle 

 to orbit 2|- inches. 



75. 10. 7. 1. SkuU, imperfect, bones of trunk, and skin. 

 Muscat, Oman ; collected by Lieut.-Col. Sir C. B. Euan 

 Smith, K.G.B. Type. Purchased {Zoological Society), 1875. 



94. 3. 9. 5. Skin, mounted. Khode, east of Oman. 



Presented by Lieut.-Col. A. S. G. Jayakar, 1894. 



94. 3. 9. 6. Skin, mounted, female. Sharkeyeh, east of 

 Oman. Same history. 



94. 3. 9. 7. Skull, with horns, and skin. Khode. 



Same history. 



94. 3. 9. 8-9. Two skulls, with horns, and skins, female. 

 Khode. Same history. 



XIII. GAZELLA MARICA. 



Gazella marica, Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xix, p. 162, 

 1897 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 95, 

 pi. Ivi, 1898; Lydekher, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. 

 p. 201, 1901 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 88. 



Ehim (in common with several other gazelles). 



Typical locality Nejd, central Arabia. 

 A pale-coloured desert form, of the approximate size of 

 muscatensis, but with longer and more regularly incurving 



