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Apparently a lai-ger form closely related to the typical 

 race of rufifrons, with a richer rufous colouring, and the 

 knee-tufts dull rufous. Skull larger and heavier than in 

 rufifrons, with the lachrymal pits larger and deeper, the 

 nasal aperture relatively shorter and broader, and the upper 



Pig. 14. — Skull and Horns of Red Gazelle (Gasella rufina). 

 From Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894. 



line of the premaxillES more curved ; basal length about S-jig , 

 maximum width 3f , length from muzzle to orbit 4| inches ; 

 length of horns in type 11| inches. , 



94. 6. 4. 1. Skull, with horns (fig. 14), and skin. 

 Purchased by donor in Algiers. Type. 



Presented hy Sir E. G. Loder, Bart., 1894. 



XVI. GAZELLA LEPTOCEEOS. 



Antilope leptoceros, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. iv, livr. Ixxii, 

 pis. 424 and 425, 1842 ; Wagner, Sohreber's Sdugthiere, Suppl. 

 vol. iv, p. 422, 1844, vol. v, p. 407, 1855 ; Schin^, Synop. Mamm. 

 vol. ii, p. 445, 1845, Mon. Antilop. p. 34, pi. xxxviii, 1848; 

 SundevalJ, K. Svensha Vet.- Ale. Handl. 1845, p. 269, 1847; 

 Giehel, Sdugethiere, p. 309, 1853-55 ; Heuglin, Beise Nordost- 

 Afriha, vol. ii, p. 100, 1877. 



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