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Size medium; height at withers about 24 or 25 inches. General colour 
dark smoky fawn, much darker than in the allied species. Facial markings 
distinct; central facial band dark rufous-fawn, with a black spot on the 
nose. Ears of medium length, brownish-fawn behind. Dark lateral and 
pygal bands smoky brown; light lateral band very slightly lighter than the 
back. Limbs more rufous than body ; knee-brushes brown or black. 
Skull with short broad nasals; anteorbital fossze shallow in the only 
good skull available. Basal length 6°75 inches, greatest breadth 3:3, muzzle 
to orbit 3:7. 
Horns thick and rather short, almost straight and parallel to each other, 
a little curved backwards below, and forwards above. 
Female. Similar to the male, but horns short and straight. 
Hab. Western Arabia. 
Although the Arabian Gazelle was described and figured as long ago as 
1827, and specimens of it are by no means rare in captivity, we have as yet 
received little information about its exact range and its mode of life. But 
the great peninsula of Arabia still remains, we must recollect, one of the 
largest tracts on the earth’s surface that has been least explored by scientific 
travellers. 
Hemprich and Ehrenberg, the discoverers of this Gazelle, met. with it 
during their travels on the eastern coast of the Red Sea, and transmitted 
specimens of both sexes to the Berlin Museum. Here they were first 
described and figured by Lichtenstein in his ‘ Darstellung der Saugethiere "— 
a work devoted to making known the riches of the Mammal-collection of the 
great Institution of which he was the Director. | 
Following Hemprich and Ehrenberg’s MS., Lichtenstein named the species 
“ Antilope arabica,’ and a short time afterwards it was again described and 
figured by Ehrenberg in his ‘ Symbol Physic’ under the same designation. 
Ehrenberg informs us that he and his fellow-traveller Hemprich obtained 
their first specimens of this Gazelle at Hamam el Faraun, on the coast of 
the Sinaitic Peninsula between Suez and Tor, and subsequently found it 
abundant on the island of Farsan on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea. 
They also observed Gazelles which they believed to be of the same species 
near Baalbec in Syria, but these, we think, are more likely to have been 
Gazella dorcas. 
