ILE 
Succeeding authorities have added very little to our knowledge of this 
Gazelle. Canon Tristram, in his ‘Fauna and Flora’ of Palestine, mentions a 
Gazelle occurring in the “ desert-country east of the Jordan ” as being probably 
of this species ; but we believe that he did not obtain any good specimens of 
it. Dr. Blanford, in his volume on the ‘ Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia,’ has 
figured (for comparison) a head of this species obtained by Captain Heysham 
Fig. 60. 
Head of Arabian Gazelle. 
(P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 141.) 
near Mocha, S.W. Arabia; and in the Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings ’ for 
1874, the late Sir Victor Brooke gave a woodcut of the head of this 
Gazelle, which, by the kind permission of the Society, we are enabled to 
reproduce. 
Living examples of the Arabian Gazelle are easily obtained at Aden and 
at Hodeidah, Jeddah, and other Arabian ports on the Red Sea, and are often 
brought to Europe. We have little doubt that the Gazelles in the Derby 
Menagerie figured by Waterhouse Hawkins in the third plate of the 
‘Gleanings,’ and there called by Lord Derby’s MS. name, Gazella vera, were 
of this species, though in the text they are referred to as G. dorcas and in 
