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C7 EAN Ss: GAZELLE. 
GAZELLA PELZELNI, Kou. 
[PLATE LXII.] 
Gazella spekei, Scl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 540; Lort Phillips, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 931 
(nec Blyth). 
Gazella pelzelni, Kohl, SB. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1886, p. 4; id. Ann. Mus. Wien, 1. 
_ p. 76, pls. ii. & iv. fig. 1 (animal & skull) (1886) ; Thos. P.Z.S. 1891, p. 211; 
Scl. P. Z.S. 1892, pp. 100 & 118; Swayne, P. Z.S. 1892, p. 8306; Ward, Horn 
Meas. (1) p. 118 (1892), (2) p. 155 (1896) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 238 (1893) ; 
Swayne, Somaliland, p. 316 (fig., head) (1895) ; Hoyos, Aulihan, p. 178, pl. x. 
fig. 1 (1895) ; Elliot, Publ. Chicago Mus. Zool. i. p. 119 (1897). 
VernacutaR Name :—Dhero of Somalis (in common with the last species) (Swayne). 
Size rather greater than in G. spekei; height at withers about 265 inches. 
Colour brownish fawn, rather more rufous than G. spekei. Light lateral band 
distinct; dark band rufous brown, similar to that of the back but rather 
darker in tone, not blackish. Pygal band distinct, brown. Centre of face 
dark fawn, without either the black spot or the pale swollen cushion 
characteristic of G. speket. Dark and light cheek-bands shert and indistinct. 
Knee-tufts dark brown. 
Skull narrower than in G. spekei, and with long narrow nasals, which 
articulate broadly with the premaxille. Basal length in an old male 
6°87 inches, greatest breadth 3°25, muzzle to orbit 3°76. 
Horns more evenly divergent, much straighter and less curved backwards 
than in G. spekei, but otherwise similar. In length they attain to about 
11 or 12 inches. 
Female. Like the male, but the horns much smoother and slenderer, and 
only about three-fourths the length. 
Hab. Maritime plains of Northern Somaliland. 
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