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of the River Noon in the extreme southern coast district of Morocco, opposite 
the Canary Islands. 
In the article in question, which is accompanied by an excellent coloured 
figure of the “ M’hoor,” Bennett informs us that this Antelope “is regarded 
in the kingdom of Morocco as an exceedingly rare animal,” and continues as 
follows :— 
“ Mr. Willshire states that the one earliest obtained by him was the first individual 
of the race which had been seen in Mogador. It is highly esteemed, according to 
Mr. Drummond-Hay, on account of its producing the bezoars, so precious in Oriental 
medicine, which are known in Morocco as the Baid-al-Mhorr, or eggs of the M’horr. 
Mr. Hay conjectures that Baid-Mhorr may possibly be the source whence, rather than 
from the Persian Pazahar, the name of Bezoar has sprung. It is pretended that two of 
these calculous concretions are met with in the intestines of every individual of the race, 
but none were found in that which died in the Society’s collection, and which, as is 
stated by Mr. Spooner and Mr. Langstaff, who examined it after death, agreed in its 
visceral anatomy with the Antelopes in general.” 
About the same time as the Zoological Society's specimens arrived in 
England it would appear that living examples of the same Antelope reached 
the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. One of these, an immature female, was 
figured by Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and F. Cuvier on the 375th plate of their 
‘ Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes.’ In the letterpress accompanying this 
plate we are informed that two young living examples (male and female) 
had been received there, and that the female had lived in good health for 
two years without changing her colour, only varying in the size of her body 
and in the shape of her horns. The authors inform us that when the 
““Nanguers ” arrived at Paris they had only very short horns, about 4 or 
5 inches in length, which were at that period strongly and uniformly curved 
towards the front. The male having died when young did not change the 
character of his horns, but those of the female having had time to develop 
became recurved behind and divergent one from the other. ‘These Gazelles 
had neither tear-bags nor knee-brushes. When the figure was drawn the 
female stood about 2 feet 10 inches in height, but seemed to be not fully 
grown. 
The authors of the ‘ Histoire Naturelle des Mammiféres’ refer these 
specimens to the ‘ Nanguer” of Buffon, and do not say from what country 
they were received, but from their figure and description there can be no 
