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years in succession. In one year the Addax are only found far south of Rhadamis and 
Ain Taiba (S. of Ouargla), in other years they follow the rain as far north as the 
southern borders of the Chott Djereed in the east and the neighbourhood of Ain Taiba 
in the west. Without the help of the French and a good escort of Chambas it would be 
vain to attempt to reach the Rhadamis country by way of Bir Beresof; and the wells 
being sometimes nine days apart, it is a difficult route to follow. 
“T heard when at Touzer that a M. Cornex had obtained a ‘ Begra el Ouash’ within 
a few days of Douz; possibly this was the Bubal, though I was assured that he had got 
the Addax. M. Cornex (a Swiss) had adopted the religion and dress of the Arabs, and 
had therefore facilities of reaching places and avoiding dangers that were quite 
exceptional. 
“Tn 1894 the Touaregs raided as far north as the southern shores—if they can be 
called shores— of the Chott Djereed. In 1895 we crossed the western end of this Chott, 
and, so far as we could judge or learn, the Chott was without water in any part; it had 
been an exceptionally dry year, and the country between the mountains and the 
Djereed we found absolutely devoid of inhabitants. 
« At El Oued there was in the fort a tame Addax familiarly called ‘ Begra,’ and this 
was the only living specimen we saw during our journey. It was not a very good 
example, but had rather a fine pair of horns. It had been presented by some Chambas 
to the Commandant.” 
From Morocco we have no intelligence of the Addax, although it will be 
doubtless found there in the desert south of the Atlas. From Senegal, like- 
wise, we have little certain to record except the receipt of living animals of 
this species on more than one occasion, especially a fine pair now in the 
Zoological Garden at Antwerp, where Sclater has lately examined them. 
We do not usually quote Rochebrune’s ‘ Faune de la Sénégambie,’ as it is 
hardly a reliable authority, but we find that he says that the Addax is 
“common” in Cayor and Oualo on the right bank of the River Senegal, and 
this river is probably its southern limit on this side of Africa. 
The Addax is occasionally, but not very frequently, brought to Europe 
alive. In the twelfth volume of the ‘Nova Acta’ of the Leopoldino- 
Carolinian Academy (1824) will be found a figure and description by 
Dr. A. W. Otto of this Antelope, taken from a fresh specimen that had 
died in a menagerie. Otto described it as belonging to a new species, 
“ Antilope suturosa,” but it was manifestly only an Addax in its darker winter 
coat. 
In 1827 Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and F. Cuvier published a description of this 
Antelope in their great work upon Mammals from a male specimen living in 
the Jardin des Plantes, received from the then Pasha of Egypt. Figures are 
