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What little we know of this Gazelle is chiefly due to the researches of 
the late Baron Theodor von Heuglin, an energetic collector and observer of 
the Mammals and Birds of North-eastern Africa, whose name we haye 
already had frequent occasion to mention in the pages of this work. In the 
absence of any better designation, we have selected “ Heuglin’s Gazelle” as 
its English name, which is se far applicable that, besides being its first 
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Heads of Heuglin’s Gazelle, ¢ & 9. 
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describer, Heuglin is the only naturalist that has recorded observations on it 
as met with in its native wilds. Heuglin passed several months in the fertile 
territory of Bogos, north of Abyssinia (now, we believe, included in the 
Italian colony of “ Eritrea”), when attached to the German expedition sent 
out in search of the much-lamented traveller Dr. Eduard Vogel. He 
thoroughly explored this country, which is traversed by the River Anseba, 
