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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
Mr. H. S. L. Beaclnell, of the Survey Department, writes:—“ I have seen specimens 
of Gazella dorcas?\\ over Egypt on both sides of the Nile Valley, and in the very centre 
of the western desert between the valley and oases. They are also common in the desert 
surrounding the Fayum, in the oases of Baharieh, Farafreh, Dakhel, and Khargeh. 
They are, however, very difficult to approach, so are seldom obtained. In the summer 
they become comparatively tame in the oases, as they come down to drink at the springs 
in the very hot weather. As the inhabitants do not, as a rule, have guns, and there 
are practically no Arabs in the oases at this time of the year, they have nothing 
to fear. The oases also abound in green scrub and juicy plants, on which Gazelles 
feed, and they also occasionally feed on the cultivated crops at night.” 
Mr. Beadnell has also sent two snares, similar to those described by Mr. Jennings 
Bramly under G. leptoceros (p. 345). The rings hearing the thorns are rather over 
four inches in circumference; the description of their use tallies entirely with that 
given by Mr. Bramly.— W. E. de AV. 
Gazella arabica, Licht. 
Antilope arabka, Licht. Darst. Saug. 1827, pL vi.; Ehrenb. Symb. Phj^s. dec. i. pi. v. (1828) ; Heugl. 
Faun. Roth. Meer., Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 16; id. Ant. u. Biiff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. 
pt. 2) 1863, p. 5 ; et auct. 
Gazella arabica, Tristram, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 86; id. Faun. & Elor. Pal. 188L, p. 6 
(? Palestine) ; Fitz. SB. Ak. AYien, lix. pt. i. 1869, p. 159; Blank Zool. Abyss. 1870, p. 261, 
pi. i. fig. 3 (horns); Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 544; id. ibid. 1874, p. 141 (fig. head) ; 
AA'ard, Horn. Meas. (1) 1892, p. 114, (2) 1896, p. 156; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, 1893, 
p. 179; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 812 (Hodeidali) ; Sclater Thomas, Book of 
Antelopes, hi. 1898, p. 115, pi. lix. 
Size medium; height at withers about 24 or 25 inches. General colour dark smoky 
fawn; facial markings distinct, central facial band dark rufous fawn, with a black spet 
on the nose. Ears of medium length, brownish fawn behind. Dark lateral and pygal 
bauds smoky brown ; light lateral band very slightly lighter than the back. Limbs more 
rufous than the body ; knee-brushes brown or black. Horns thick and rather .short, 
almost straight, and parallel to each other, a little curved backwards below and 
forwards above. 
Hemprich and Ehrenberg were the discoverers of this Gazelle ; specimens were 
sent home to Berlin, and Lichtensrein described the species in his ‘ Darstellung der 
Saugethiere,’ under the traveller.s’ MS. name Antilo])e arabica. It was first found in 
the valleys of the Sinaitic Peninsula between Suez and Tor, and afterwards met with 
at many places in Arabia near the Bed Sea coast, and also on the island of Farsan. 
