oo lb eeVvUSeAT GAZELLE. 
GAZELLA MUSCATENSIS, Brooke. 
[PLATE LXV.] 
Gazella muscatensis, Prooke, P. Z.S. 1874, p. 141, pl. xxii.; Sel. List An. Z. S. (8) 
p-. 141 (1883); id. (9) p. 155 (1896); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 179 (1893) ; 
Thos. P. Z. S. 1894, p. 451. 
Size small, height at withers 21-22 inches. General colour dark rufous 
fawn, darker than in any other species except G. arabica, which it much 
resembles in colour. Light lateral band scarcely or not perceptible; dark 
lateral band blackish, its upper edge little defined. Central facial band dark 
rufous, a distinct blackish patch over the nasals; light facial streak narrow, 
well defined, dark band below it not defined from the general colour of the 
cheeks. Knee-tufts present, brownish. Limbs darker in colour than usual, 
being only white on the inner sides of the forearms and thighs. 
Skull very similar to that of G. isabella. Premaxille scarcely touching 
nasals. Basal length in an old female 5:7 inches, greatest breadth 2:9, 
muzzle to orbit 3°6. 
Horns of males curved like those of G. ‘sabella, but decidedly shorter, not 
or little longer than the skull. 
Female. Similar to the male, but the horns slender, scarcely ringed, neariy 
as long as those of the other sex. 
Hab. Oman, Eastern Arabia. 
On the 15th of August, 1873, the Zoological Society of London received as 
a present from Major C. B. Euan Smith (now Col. Sir Charles B. Euan 
Smith, K.C.B.) a male Gazelle which he had brought with him from 
