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VERTEBRATA. 
THE ARIEL GAZELLE. 
When taken young, wild and timid as ttie gazelle is, it is readily tamed, and becomes familiar 
and quite at ease. Tame gazelles are frequently seen at large in the court-yards of houses in Syria, 
and their beauty, exquisite form, and playfulness render them great favorites. 
This animal, formerly regarded as a distinct species, is now held by most naturalists to be a 
variety only of the African Gazelle. 
The Isabel Gazelle, G. Isabella, formerly supposed to be a variety of the Dorcas Gazelle, is 
considered a distinct species by Gray. It is found in Egypt and Kordofan. 
The Pallah or Rooye-Boc — the Betjaan of the Gaffers — Antilo^oe melainpus, is a magnificent 
species, four and a half feet long and three high. The general color is a deep red, the under 
parts being wbite. It inhabits Caffraria and the country of the Bechuanas, living on the open 
plains in families of six or eight individuals. They run with amazing swiftness, and occasionally 
leap like the Spring-Bocs, which they resemble in their general habits and manners. They are 
extremely numerous on the elevated plains in the neighborhood of Latakoo, and constitute a 
favorite object of the chase with the natives, as their flesh, though deficient in fat, is well-tasted 
and wholesome. Pallah or Phaala is the native name of the animal, but the mixed Hottentots, 
who travel into that country from the Cape, distinguish it by the Dutch term Rooye-Boc or Red 
Buck, on account of the prevailing color of its hair. 
The Spring-Boc or Spring-Buck, Prong-Boc, Showy Goat or Tsebe, is perhaps the most 
graceful and the most beautifully varied in its colors, of all the antilope tribe. Imagination 
cannot conceive a quadruped more light and airy in form, more delicate in its proportions, 
or whose movements are executed with more natural ease and grace, than the Spring-Boc, or as 
