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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
GAZELLA. 
Gazella, Liclit. Mag. nat. Freund. Berl. vi. 1814, pp. 152, 171. 
Size medium, but with a considerable range of variation. Horns usually present 
in both sexes; those of the male strong, prominently ribbed, and generally of 
medium size, about the length of the head, but sometimes considerably longer; those 
of the female more slender, straighter, and shorter than in the male. Coloration 
ordinarily sandy, with a white belly, the face generally marked with dark and light 
streaks; streaks also usually present on the flanks. 
Mr. R. H. Porter, the publisher of the ‘ Book of Antelopes,’ has very kindly lent 
woodcuts of heads of three of the smaller gazelles for the illustration of this work. 
These text-figures clearly show the form of the horns in the different species. 
Gazella doecas, Linn. (Plate LX.) 
Gazella africana cornibus hrevibus, Ray, Quadr. 1693, p. 80. 
Capra dorcas, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. x. i. 1758, p. 69. 
Antilope dorcas, Pallas, Spic. Zool. i. 1767, p. 11 ; Liclit. Darst. Siiug. 1827, pi. v. fpartira) ; 
Heugl. Ant. u. BiifF. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) 1863, p. 5 (partim) ; id. Reise 
N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 99 ; Brehm, Thierl. iii. 1877, p. 205 ; et auct. 
Gazella dorcas, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 137; Loche, Cat. Mamm. Algerie, 1858, p. 13; 
Tristram, Great Sahara, 1860, p. 3S7 ; Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. i. 1869, p. 159; Brooke, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 537 ; Danf. & Alst. ibid. 1877, p. 276 (Asia Minor) ; Lataste, 
Mamm. Barb. (Act. Soc. Lihn. Bord. xxxix.) 1885, p. 293, sep. p. 171 ; id. Mamm. Tunisie, 
1887, p. 36; Rowland Ward, Horn Meas. (2) 1896, p. 157 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoot’s, 
1893, p. 180; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 467 ; Sclater, ibid. 1895, p. 523 (Egypt) ; 
Pease, ibid. 1896, p. 812 (Algeria) ; Whitaker, ibid. 1896, p. 815 (Tunis) ; Sclater & Thomas, 
Book of Antelopes, iii. 1897, p. 99, pi. Ivii.; Johuston, in Great and Small Game of Afr. 
1899, p. 344, pi. ix. figs. 2, 3; et auct. 
Size small; height at withers 21-22 inches. General colour pale fawn, rather 
variable in tone. Facial markings distinct; central band rufous fawn, no dark nose- 
spot ; streaks from eye to mouth brownish fawn, contrasting with the white bands 
between them. Ears long, whitish fawn behind. Light lateral band present, but not 
strongly marked ; dark lateral band brown, considerably darker than the back. Pygal 
band indistinct. Knee-tufts present, reddish fawn. 
Horns of the male flattened laterally, evenly divergent as they curve backwards in 
the basal half of their length, and as evenly convergent in the terminal half, with the 
tips bent upwards in a well-marked curve. Thus, viewed from in front, the widest 
expanse of the horns i.s in the middle, the tips being rather wider apart, but bearing 
the same relative positions one to the other as the bases of the horns have to each other. 
