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dama,” designating the forms of Morocco and Senegal as “ var. occidentalis,” 
and stating that he had examined a specimen of it in the Frankfort Museum. 
If the locality and the references given by Riippell in his catalogue of 
the Senckenbergian Collection are correct, the specimen in that collection 
must be the “Mhorr” of Morocco, and not the “ Nanguer” of Senegal. 
We are told by Gray (‘Gleanings from the Knowsley Menagerie,’ p. 5) that 
the Frankfort specimen was originally received from the Zoological Society 
of London. 
Among the numerous Antelopes procured from the Gambia for the Derby 
Menagerie by Lord Derby’s agent Whitfield were several examples of this 
species. Dr. Gray, in the letterpress to the ‘Gleanings,’ tells us that at the 
time of his writing (April 1850) there was a fine male of Gazella dama living 
at Knowsley, and that a female, procured by the same collector, which died 
on its passage home, was preserved in the British Museum. This specimen, 
a skin of an immature animal, is still in the Museum, to which it was 
presented by the Earl of Derby, and, strange to say, is still the only example 
of this Antelope in the National Collection. 
In 1865 a pair of this Gazelle (as recorded in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings,’ 
1865, p. 675) were acquired by the Zoological Society of London, from the 
Zoological Gardens, Antwerp. About the same period Sclater recollects 
having seen other examples of this Antelope in the Antwerp Gardens, but 
does not remember to have noticed them in any other of the continental 
Gardens which he has visited from time to time for many years. 
In some MS. notes on the Antelopes of the Gambia which Sir Robert 
Llewelyn, K.C.M.G., the Governor of the Colony, has kindly sent to Sclater, 
“the Springbuck,” or ‘“ Kongko-tong” of the Mandingos, is stated to be 
“common all over the south bank of the river.” This “‘Springbuck ” can be 
hardly any other Antelope than the present species. If such is the case, it is 
remarkable that a beautiful animal, so abundant in a British Colony a few 
days’ steam from our shores, should be still so little known in our Museums 
and Menageries. 
September, 1898. 
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