1855.] from the Somali country. 297 



several species which have been more or less confounded under G. 

 dorcas ; and quite distinct from the common Aden Gazelle, which 

 is frequently brought alive to Calcutta. One marked peculiarity- 

 consists in the ears being of an ash-grey colour, contrasting strongly 

 with the hue of the neck and doubtless also of the body. Horns 

 robust, curved backward and then upward, and diverging but slight- 

 ly ; much longer, and with the annuli wider apart, than in the Aden 

 Gazelle, though the animal would seem to be of the same size. The 

 horns of the female are very much stouter than we have seen in 

 any other female Gazelle, and follow the same curve as in the male, 

 having rudimentary annuli. Muzzle whitish, with a strongly con- 

 trasting black nose-patch. The Society possesses a species of 

 Gazelle (habitat uncertain), which much resembles the Aden Gazelle 

 except in being considerably larger, with proportionally longer and 

 more distantly knobbed horns, much as in the present race : but 

 both of these have the ears rufescent and not ashy. At present, 

 we are far from being- satisfied with the manner in which Dr. Gray 

 has brought together sundry of these affined races of Gazelle, in 

 the Proe. Zool. Soc. for June 11th, 1850 (Ann. Mag. JST. H. VIII* 

 1851. p. 131). It seems like cutting rather than unravelling of the 

 tangled knot. Lt. Burton writes — " A kind of Gazelle called by 

 the people Dera, 1^3 ; as you may observe that there is an elevation 

 of loose replicated skin upon the nose. It seems to live during the 

 dry season without water, and affects the desert, not being very shy 

 in presence of man, but avoiding jungle. They are found in flocks.'* 

 # Madoqtja saltiana ; Antilope saltiana, Blainville ; A. madoqua, 

 H. Smith. A beautiful skin of a male ; and heads of two other 

 males and of a female. " This little Antelope is called Sagaro, 

 jj(f U», by the Somal ; Beni Israel in Abyssinia; and Gliazalah by 

 the Arabs. It abounds throughout the country generally in pairs, 

 and is fond of ravines under hills, the beds of nullahs, and patches 

 of desert vegetation. In the northern Somali country, these Ante- 

 lopes are caught in snares : elsewhere they are run down on foot, 

 taking half a day on account of their great swiftness. The Jackal 

 (Canis vaeiegattjs) cannot catch them. They sleep by day under 

 the trees ; and in the plains their dung (which becomes peculiarly 

 foetid with a musky odour in the sun) is found in heaps as if they 



