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Sone OGwINS: GAZELLE. 
GAZELLA TILONURA (Have). 
[PLATE LXVI.] 
Antilope melanura, Heugl. Aut. u. Biff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) p. 6 
(1863) (nec Bechstein, 1799). 
Gazella melanura, Fitz, SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 159 (1869). 
Antilope tilonura, Heugl. Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 315 (1869); id. Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 
p. 101 (1877). 
Gazella tilonura, Ward, Horn Meas. (1) p. 126 (1892), (2) p. 170 (1896) ; Lyd. Horns 
and Hoofs, p. 233 (1898). 
Gazella levipes, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 541 (mec Sund.). 
VerNacuLAaR Name :—Tel-badu in Tigré (Heuglin). 
Height at withers about 27 inches. General colour deep sandy. Central 
facial band but little more rufous than the back ; no black patch on muzzle. 
Light facial streak scarcely or not perceptible on sides of muzzle; the area 
round the eye dull whitish, not sharply defined. Back of ears scarcely 
lighter than nape. Light lateral band present, not strongly defined. Dark 
lateral band black, strongly marked, though narrower than in G. thomsond ; 
-a sandy line present between it and the white of the belly. No dark pygal 
band. Tail sandy at base, the remainder black. Knee-brushes present, 
dark sandy. 
Horns not, or little, longer than the head, lyrate, parallel at base, curving 
outwards above and then abruptly twisted inwards towards each other at 
the tip, the ends each forming a sharp hook, similar to. that found in 
G. soemmerringi, but even more strongly bent inwards. 
Hab. Bogosland, North-east Africa. 
