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Muscat. On September 20th of the same year a female, obviously of the 
same species and obtained at the same place, was received by the Society on 
deposit from Mrs. Harris, then of Limefield, Kirkby Lonsdale. Siu Victor 
Brooke having then lately published his well-known monograph of the 
Gazelles in the Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings, and being specially 
interested in the group, Sclater lost no time in calling Sir Victor’s attention 
to these animals, with which he was much delighted. Sir Victor described 
Fig. 70 a. 
Heads of Muscat Gazelle, ¢ & 2. 
(From specimens in B. M.) 
them as belonging to a new species at the meeting of the Zoological Society 
on Feb. 27, 1874, under the name Gazella muscatensis, and pointed out the 
clear differences which separated them from G. arabica, which up to that 
time he had believed to be the only Gazelle met with in any part of Arabia. 
Instead of the massive, nearly straight, non-lyrate horns of G. arabica, Sir 
Victor showed that the new species had rather slender horns, compressed 
