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ribbed, very slightly curved backwards, and but little divergent from each 
other; the tips slightly curved upwards and forwards. 
female. Similar, but horns shorter, slenderer, and straighter. 
Hab. Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis. 
The “‘Edmi” or Mountain Gazelle of Algeria, though it has often been 
confounded with the Dorcas, and has only been accurately known within the 
last few years, is without doubt an absolutely different species not only in 
structure, but in habits and mode of life. As Sir Victor Brooke has pointed 
out, it is easily distinguished from all its allies by its larger size, rough coat, 
dark colour, and long ears. 
The first published information that we can certainly refer to this species 
is that of Frédéric Cuvier, who figured both sexes in his folio work on 
Mammals from specimens living in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, but called 
it only “le Kevel gris,” without giving it any scientific designation. 
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Some time in 1839 a living female example of this Antelope was presented 
to the Zoological Society of London by Mr. W. Willshire, one of their 
corresponding members, who had procured it at Mogador. After its death i 
in May 1840, Mr. Ogilby, who was at that time Secretary of the Society, and 
was specially interested in the study of mammals, brought the specimen before 
the notice of the Zoological Society at one of their scientific meetings, and 
proposed to name the species “‘ cuvieri,” after M. Frédéric Cuvier. Ogilby 
stated that he had observed examples of the same Gazelle in the Paris 
Museum, and that M. Cuvier would have described it had he, Ogilby, not 
done so. ‘There can be no question therefore of Ogilby’s animal being the 
same as Cuvier’s “ Kevel gris,” and that Gazella cuvieri is the earliest certain 
name to adopt for it. 
In 1849 Fraser published a figure of this species in his ‘ Zoologia Typica,’ 
taken from Ogilby’s typical specimen, which is now in the British Museum. 
Although imported from Mogador there can be little doubt that this example 
was originally obtained from the chain of the neighbouring Atlas. The 
Gazelles observed in the Great Atlas in company with Wild Sheep (Ovis 
tragelaphus) by Mr. W. B. Harris, F.R.G.S., on his journey from Morocco 
to Tafilat in 1893, were no doubt Gazella cuviert. 
Passing on to Algeria we find that Loche appears to have referred to this 
