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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Key to the Genera 
False hoofs and anteorbital pore present; horns lyrate or parallel in 
direction 
Head rounded, snout short; neck and legs of normal length; face 
striped and flanks usually with a blackish band; female 
horned in East African species; mammae, two 
Gazella 
Head elongate, flattened; snout produced; neck and legs greatly 
lengthened; sides of face uniform in color and flanks 
without dark band; female hornless; mammae, four 
Lithocranius 
False hoofs and anteorbital pore absent; horns showing a tendency 
toward a spiral twist, broadly U-shaped and ringed; 
female hornless; body size medium JEpyceros 
Gazelles 
Gazella 
Gazella Lichtenstein, 1814, Mag. Nat. Freunde, Berl., VI, pp. 152 and 171; 
type G. subguturosa , fixed in Book of Antelopes, Sclater and Thomas, 1879, 
vol. Ill, p. 65. 
The coloration is usually vinaceous or cinnamon on the 
dorsal surface and white on the under-parts. The face is 
marked by two or three bands and the tail is of medium 
length. The horns in the males are usually well developed 
and are lyrate or parallel. The females are usually horned 
and furnished with two mammae. The muzzle is simple, the 
nasal bones being short and in contact with the maxillary 
and premaxillary bones. The anteorbital fossa are moderate 
or large. 
The genus ranges from northern and eastern Africa 
south in the Nile Valley to the Victoria Nyanza and in East 
Africa to central German East Africa. Beyond Africa it 
extends through western and central Asia. 
This, the largest and most wide-spread genus of ante¬ 
lopes, contains some twenty valid species. It is known as 
far back in geological time as the Upper Miocene of Europe. 
Several species are known from the Pliocene of Europe, 
