Genus VI. GAZELLA. 
Type. 
Gazella, Licht. Mag. nat. Freund. Berl. vi. pp. 152 & 171 (1814) G. suseurrurosa”. 
Dorcas, Gray, Med. Repos. xv. p. 807 (1821) G. Dorcas. 
Dama, Benn. Tr. Z. 8.1. p. 7 (1833) = ee G. DAMA. 
Leptoceros, Wagn. Schr. Siiug. Suppl. iv. p. 422 (1844) G. LEPTOCEROS. 
Procapra, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xv. p. 334 (1846) G. PICTICAUDATA. 
Tragops, id. op. cit. xvi. p. 11 (1847) G. BENNETTI. 
Trayopsis, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. p. 157 (1869) G. BENNETTI. 
Eudorcas, id. tom. cit. p. 159 (1869) G. “‘ LzVIPES.” 
Korin, Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 39 (1872) . . G. RUFIFRONS. 
Nanyer, Lataste, Mamm. Barb. (Act. Bord. xxxix.), sep. cop., 
DelSRCSSO\ Mates so ef 2 «on « = » «+ “Gy atHORR. 
Size medium, but with a considerable range of variation. General form 
normal; the muzzle simple, neither expanded as in Pantholops nor elongated 
as in Saiga; the neck of ordinary length, and the back without any evertible 
fold as in Antidorcas. Coloration ordinarily sandy, with a white belly, the 
face generally marked with dark and light streaks; streaks also generally 
present on the flanks and rump. Knee-brushes usually present. Tail 
short or of medium length. 
Skull generally with shallow anteorbital fosse corresponding to the ante- 
orbital glands, but occasionally—in the procaprine section—without any trace 
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of them. Premolars 3 as usual in the Bovines. 
Horns generally present in both sexes, the females of the first four species 
alone being without them. In the male the horns are strong, prominently 
* This species may be taken as the type of Gazella, as being the only one which is common to 
Lichtenstein’s original genus and to Blainville’s “ Gazella” of 1816. The latter author is 
ordinarily quoted as the original founder of the name, and his list includes the best known species 
—G@.dorcas. But Lichtenstein’s genus, two years earlier in date, does not contain G. dorcas at all, 
and the only way in which the name Gazella can be properly retained for this group is by 
regarding G. subgutturosa as its type. 
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