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Antelope under the name Gazella corinna, and that Canon Tristram and 
Lataste have called it Gazella kevella. We have already shown, however, 
that both these names are properly to be applied to the Dorcas Gazelle. 
In 1890, Mr. Edward Buxton met with this Gazelle during a shooting 
excursion into the Atlas, of which he has given us a most interesting account 
in one of the chapters of his ‘Short Stalks.’ Mr. Buxton’s principal object 
of pursuit on that occasion was the Aroui or Barbary Sheep (Ovis tragelaphus), 
but he also had the good fortune to obtain a fine head of the Mountain 
Gazelle, which he exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 
March 31st of that year (see P. Z.S. 1890, p. 363). 
Mr. Buxton tells us, in the course of the remarks he made on this occasion, 
that the Mountain Gazelle of Algeria is ‘‘about twice the size of the Gazelle 
of the plains (Gazella dorcas), and has straight instead of lyre-shaped horns. 
It lives on the same kind of steep ground as the Aroui, perhaps at a rather 
lower elevation. The fact that it is essentially a mountain animal is, I think, 
shown by its large callous knees, like those of a London cab-horse. The 
Aroui has the same. They are, I think, absent in Gazella dorcas. Another 
feature consists in the curious hollows or pouches on each side of the 
testicles.” 
In his ‘Short Stalks’ Mr. Buxton gives us full particulars of his adventures 
in obtaining the much-coveted head of this animal above referred to, and 
illustrates them by a beautiful picture of a group of these Gazelles drawn 
and engraved after his instructions by Mr. G. E. Lodge. 
In his field-notes on the Antelopes of Eastern Algeria, published in the 
Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ for 1896, Mr. A. EK. Pease speaks as 
follows of the present species :— 
“This Gazelle is by no means so rare as is generally supposed, though it is difficult 
to secure, its quickness and facility for eluding observation being equal almost to that 
of the Larrowi (Ovis tragelaphus). There is hardly a mountain in the southern ranges 
of the Aures where they are unknown, and [ have seen them on almost every mountain 
from far to the N.W. of Biskra to the Tunisian frontier at Negrine. I know that they 
are common on the Djebel Cherchar, and I have seen them as far north as the hills and 
woods of Melagon, near Chelia. I have seldom seen more than eight in a herd, and far 
more frequently they are met with singly and in pairs, or bands of three to five. While 
frequenting the same difficult ground as the Larrowi, it is more usual to find them in 
larger numbers on those mountains which are lower than the highest. I have seen them 
on the plateaux and plains among the mountains, and they frequently descend at night 
to feed on the barley in the valleys, as also does the Larrowi. The best male horns I 
have measure rather more than 36 cm. along the curve.” 
