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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
Bramly, ibid. 1895, p. 863 (Egypt) ; Sclater, ibid. 1896, p. 780 (Viv. Soc. Zool.) ; Pease, ibid. 
1896, p. 813 (Algeria) ; Whitaker, ibid. 1896, p. 816 (Tunis); Ward, Horn Meas. (2) 1896, 
p. 169. 
Height of male at withers about 25 inches. General colour very pale sandy fawn, the 
Gazelline markings little defined. Central facial band and darker cheek-bands sandy, 
not rufous, and but little contrasting with the light ground-colour. Light lateral 
bands scarcely perceptible, and the darker ones below them only pale sandy, with a 
tinge of brownish, as are the pygal bands, neither being much darker than the general 
dorsal colour. Ears long, nariw, pointed, pale whitish buff externally. Tail sandy at 
base, darkening terminally to brownish black. Front of fore limbs sandy, of hind 
limbs whitish ; knee-brushes distinct, but little darker than the general colour; a circle 
of black stiff hairs round the base of the hoofs. Horns of male long, about twice the 
length of the head, slender, closely and heavily ringed nearly to the tip ; somewhat 
variable as to their exact curvature, but usually less curved than in most species; they 
are placed near together basally, diverging above, sometimes very widely. 
The horns of the female, though sometimes nearly equal to those of the male in 
length, are far more slender, and even less curved. 
Hah. The interior of Algeria and the Libyan Desert. 
In the Plate, the male represented in the foreground was obtained by Mr. Jennings 
Bramly at Wadi Natrun. The horns of this specimen measure as followsEight 
horn over curve 1 foot 3 inches=380 mm., left horn 1 foot 2^ inches=r368 mm., 
circumference 3f inches=95 mm., tip to tip lOf inches = 270 mm. This was an old 
animal; the horns show considerable wear, and the point of the left one is slightly 
broken. These are believed to be the second longest, and have by far the widest 
spread, of any known specimen. 
The female represented in the background was drawn from a photograph of the 
specimen presented to the Zoological Society of London by Mr. A. E. Birdwood, 
August 6, 1896, from the Western Desert of Egypt, and, notwithstanding that one 
of its legs was badly wrenched in the Arab trap, it has thriven and lived for six and a 
half years in captivity. (Fig. head, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 781.) 
Mr. Jennings Bramly, in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,’ 
1895, p. 863, gives an interesting account of the mode of capture of this Gazelle, 
which has already been republished in ‘The Book of Antelopes’; but as it is an 
entirely local field-note, it is again given here in ecctenso :— 
“On the 27th of June 1 started from the Pyramids in order, if possible, to catch 
some living specimens of Loder’s Gazelle, known to the Arabs as ‘ Ghasal Abiad’ (the 
White Gazelle), wEich the shikaris whom I took with me reported to be found in the 
desert at some thirty or forty miles distant from Cairo. 
“ Leaving at 4 p.m. on the 27th, we started, taking a south-easterly direction. We 
