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Antilope mkorr, var. 8, Wagn. Schr. Séiug. Suppl. iv. p. 410 (1844), v. p. 404 (1855). 
Gazella mohr, Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 39 (1872) (partim); Brooke, P. Z. 8. 1873, 
p. 648 (partim). 
Antilope dama, var. occidentalis, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1845, p. 266 
(1847) ; id. Hornschuch’s Trans]., Arch. Skand. Beitr. 11. p. 262; Reprint, p. 82 
(1848). 
Vernacutar Name :—Nanguer in Senegai (Buffon). 
Size about as in G. ruficollis and G. mhorr. Markings throughout very 
much as in the next species, Gazella mhorr, but the white of the rump-patch, 
although less than in G. ruficollis, where it spreads all over the body, is 
considerably more extended, uniting on the thighs with the white of the 
sides of the belly, aud therefore cutting off the dark colour of the outer sides 
of the hind limbs from that of the back. Other characters very much as in 
G. mhorr. 
Hab. Senegal and Gambia. 
Passing now to the western end of Northern Africa we find this group of 
Antelopes represented by the “Dama” Gazelle, a species which has been 
known to naturalists ever since the time of Buffon. By him it was described 
and figured in the twelfth volume of his ‘ Histoire Naturelle,’ under the 
name of ‘ Le Nanguer,” the appellation stated by Adanson to be given to it 
in Senegal. Upon the “ Nanguer” of Buffon, Pallas in 1766 established his 
Antilope dama, so that there can be no question as to Gazella dama being 
the correct name of the representative species of this group in Senegal. But 
whether Pallas was right in assigning the term ‘‘dama” of Pliny to the 
present animal is a matter open to much question. The late Mr. E. T. 
Bennett has discussed this subject in his article on the Mhorr Antelope 
published in the first volume of the Zoological Society’s ‘'Transactions,’ to 
which we may refer our readers. But there can be little doubt that the 
ordinary “Dama” of the Romans was not the present animal, but the well- 
known Fallow-Deer, Cervus dama. 
For many years the naturalists following Buffon and Pallas gave us no 
further information concerning this Antelope, and merely copied what their 
predecessors had said of it., Sundevall, in his well-known treatise on the 
‘‘ Pecora,” united the three members of this group together under “ Antilope 
