68 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Antilope (Leptoceros) leptooeros, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, 

 Suppl. vol. iv, p. 422, 1844. 



Gazella dorcas, var. 4, Qray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 57, 1852. 



Gazella leptooeros, TemmincTc, Esquiss. Zool. Ouine, p. 193, 1853 ; 

 Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 543 ; Lydehher, Horns and 

 Hoofs, p. 284, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 344, 

 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 254, 1908 ; Sclaterand Thomas, 

 Booh of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 137, 1898 ; Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1899, p. 593 ; Johnston, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 349, 

 1899 ; Anderson and de Winton, Zool. Egypt, Mamm. p. 343, 

 pi. Ixi, 1902 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 258, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 257, 1914. 



Leptooeros abu-harab,\ Fitainger, Sitzher. h. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



Leptooeros cuvieri, J lix, pt. 1, p. 160, 1869. 



Gazella loderi, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 522 ; Bramley, ibid. 

 1895, p. 863 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 169, 1869. 



Gazella leptoceros abu-harah, Lydehher, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 255, 1908. 



Ehim — a name also applied to other gazelles. 



Type of Leptoceros, Wagner, nee Leach. 



Typical locality apparently Sennar. 



Size medium ; shoulder-height about 25 inches. Horns 

 long — about twice length of skull — slender, closely ridged 

 nearly to tips ; usually almost straight, with a slight back- 

 ward bend, but displaying considerable indiYidual variation 

 in regard to divergence ; general colour pale sandy fawn, 

 with the usual markings faint and ill-defined ; median face- 

 stripe and dark lateral stripes sandy and contrasting but 

 slightly with the white ones ; flank and pygal bands pale 

 sandy with a brownish wash, only a little darker than back ; 

 ears long, narrow, and pointed, with the backs whitish buff; 

 tail sandy at root, darkening to brownish black towards tip ; 

 fronts of fore-limbs sandy, of hind-limbs whitish ; knee-tufts 

 but little darker than general colour. Skull with premaxillfe 

 articulating broadly with nasals ; basal length about 6 J inches, 

 maximum breadth 3j, length from muzzle to orbit 3f inches. 

 Good horns measure from 13 to 15|- inches in length, with a 

 basal girth of from 3^ to 4^, and a tip-to-tip interval ranging 

 from 3^ to lOj inches. 



The distributional area includes the sandy tracts of the 

 interior of Algeria, Tunisia, and the Eastern Sudan as far 

 south as Nubia and Sennar. 



