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Crossing the frontier of Algeria into Tunis we find the Edmi Gazelle 
prevalent in suitable districts throughout that country. Mr. J.1.8. Whitaker, 
F.Z.S., who knows Tunis and its birds and mammals well, writes, in the same 
volume of the ‘ Proceedings’ as we have quoted above, of his experiences of 
this animal as follows :— | 
“The Mountain Gazelle, the Hdmi or Edem of the Arabs—the Tunisians use the 
latter name—is to be found sparingly on most of the mountains throughout the Tunisian 
Regency. Essentially a mountain species, as its name implies, it never occurs, so far as 
I am aware, on the plains, or at any distance from hilly country. 
“J have met with the Edmi, and obtained specimens of it, on some of the higher 
ranges near Kasrin, in Central Tunis, and have found it in the south near Gafsa and 
Tamerza. In the north of the Regency it seems to occur on the mountains near 
Zaghouan, the extreme eastern range of the Atlas, and in the neighbourhood of 
Ghardimaou, on the Algerio-Tunisian frontier, from both of which places M. Blane, the 
naturalist in Tunis, tells me he has received specimens in the flesh. I myself have also 
been offered Edmi-shooting on an estate only some twenty miles or so south of Tunis. 
It seems evident, therefore, that the species has a wide range in the Regency, although 
perhaps it is nowhere very abundant. 
“The Edmi is to be found either in small herds or singly, and occasionally, though 
not as a rule, at a considerable elevation. On the Djebel Selloum and Djebel Semama, 
near Kasrin, both of which mountains are nearly 4000 feet above sea-level, I found the 
Gazelles about halfway up. These mountains, although steep in places and with some 
very rugged scarps, are in great part well-wooded with Aleppo pines, and on the lower 
slopes with a thick undergrowth of the usual maguis vegetation. In this brushwood 
the Gazelies easily escape detection and are naturally not very often seen. Although 
fond of cover, the Edmi will adapt itself to circumstances, and seems equally at home 
on the arid mountains of the south, where there is but little vegetation, and that merely 
of a dwarf description, affording slight shelter. In the spring, when my hunting-trips 
after Aoudad (Ovis tragelaphus) and Kdmi have taken place, there has always been a little 
water on these mountains ; but for some months of the year, I am told, the watercourses 
are dry, and the animals then, should they wish to drink, must travel some distance. 
That both these species, however, shift their quarters constantly I feel convinced, force 
of circumstances rendering them as much nomads as the Arabs themselves. 
“The Edmi is very much larger than the Dorcas Gazelle, its weight being almost 
double. Its coat is darker in colour and with rather longer and coarser hair, while its 
knees, besides having very strongly developed brushes, show distinct callosities. The 
horns in the adult male are very stout and deeply annulated, and generally with but little 
curve, measuring about 13 inches, or even more in fine specimens. Those of the female 
are much more slender and smoother, but sometimes of fair length, some in my possession 
measuring 11 inches.” 
Among the wood-blocks left ready for use by the late Sir Victor Brooke 
