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near Chor-el-Lebben, where they hunted it along with the Arabs on 
horseback. 
In Dongola and Kordofan, they proceed to tell us, this Antelope is met 
with in herds in the deserts. Its flesh is much appreciated by the Arabs, 
and is dried and laid by for future use, being likewise cften sold in the 
markets. Its skins are used for shields and sandals, but are not considered 
of first-rate quality for these purposes. ‘The Arabs of the Kubabish tribe, 
they inform us, call this Antelope “ Abu-hard,” and state that it lives chiefly 
on the leaves and twigs of the acacias (Acacia textilis and A. ehrenbergi) 
which are found in the valleys of the desert in this district. 
The next great explorer of North-eastern Africa, Riippell, does not add 
much to our knowledge of the present species, which, in his list of Antelopes 
in the ‘ Neue Wirbelthiere,’ he tells us, lives in herds in the deserts of Nubia 
and also in Egypt proper, as far north as the borders of the Fayoum. He 
comments, however, upon its confusion by Lichtenstein with the A. leucoryx 
of Pallas, and calls it Antilope algazella, after Buffon. 
Our third leading authority on North-African mammals, Theodor von 
Heuglin, informs us that the Leucoryx was only met with by him in Southern 
Nubia and Kordofan, and in the oasis of El-Kab, west of Dongola. But, 
according to the Central-African traveller Nachtigal, the range of this species 
extends into Borgu and Tibeste, while Barth in 1850 met with it in the 
hills of Air or Asben, north of Agades, in about 19° N. lat. and 9° E. long. 
Proceeding still further westward, we may state that there can be little 
doubt that the Leucoryx was formerly met with in the southern part of 
Tunisia, although at the present epoch it seems to be nearly, if not quite, 
extinct in the Beylik. When Sclater was in Tunis in 1898 he observed 
a stuffed specimen of a young Leucoryx Antelope in the palace of the Bey 
at Marsa, and was told that it had been originally received alive from the 
southern frontiers of Tunisia (see P. Z. S. 1898, p. 280). 
In the Musée Alaoui, at the Bardo Palace, Tunis, Sclater was also shown an 
unmistakable figure of a Leucoryx attacked by a Lion, represented on a piece 
of Roman mosaic pavement. Of this figure Sir Harry Johnston has kindly 
furnished us with the accompanying sketch (fig. 92, p. 48). 
The mosaic pavement in question, which was discovered among the remains 
of a Roman villa in the vicinity of Tunis, contains representations of various 
animals of the chase found in that district in Roman times. The Getulus Oryx 
of Juvenal (Sat. xi. 140) was therefore in all probability the Leucoryx. 
