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type of Buffon’s ‘“ Corine” must have been merely an ordinary female of 
Gazella dorcas, although there is some difficulty on the subject in consequence 
of the discrepancy between Buffon’s figure and his description. As Thomas 
has shown in his observations upon this point (P. Z.S. 1894, p. 469), it 
seems that a wholly satisfactory determination of Buffon’s “ Corine ” is 
barely possible. 
It is manifest, however, that the names “ kevella” and “‘ corinna” cannot 
be safely assigned to any other Gazelle than Gazella dorcas. 
The many systematists whose works we have quoted above in our list of 
synonyms added very little to our knowledge of this Gazelle beyond the fact 
that it was supposed to be distributed all over North Africa from Morocco to 
Egypt and to be also found in Palestine and Syria. It is only quite recently 
that we have ascertained some precise facts respecting the ranges of this 
and other Gazelles in the countries above mentioned, and even now our 
information on this subject is by no means perfect. 
Commencing with Morocco, there is no doubt, we believe, from the 
testimony of various travellers, that a small Gazelle of this group does occur 
in the interior of that country and that it is probably of this species, but we 
have never had an opportunity of examining Moroccan specimens. In 
Algeria we have more definite information available. 
From the days of Shaw the “‘ Common Gazelle” has been recognized as an 
inhabitant of the ‘‘ Barbary States.” The French naturalist Loche included it 
in his catalogue of 1858, but is not clear in distinguishing it from its allied 
species. Canon Tristram, in the ‘ Great Sahara,’ published two years later, 
informs us that this Gazelle is found in small troops in every portion of the 
Sahara, and is the principal large game to be depended on for food, especially 
in the neighbourhood of the dayats beyond Laghouat, where pasturage is 
abundant. ‘The fawns are dropped in the early summer, and follow the dam 
until towards the end of the autumn. The Bedouin gather the droppings, 
which have a strong aromatic scent, to mix with snuff. 
In the pages of the ‘Exploration Scientifique de lAlgérie’ devoted to 
Mammals, likewise from the pen of Loche, we find a little more information 
concerning the Algerian Gazelles, but it does not appear that Loche was at all 
clear in discriminating the various species that are there met with. 
Good and precise information has, however, been given us on this subject 
by Mr. Alfred E. Pease, M.P., in his article on the ‘“‘ Antelopes of the Aures 
