GAZELLA SOEMMEEEIKGI. 
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Gazella soemmeeeingi, Cretzschm. (Plate LXII.) 
Antilope Cretzschmar, Atlas Eiipp. Eeise, 1826, p. 49, pi. xix.; Eiipp. N. Wirb. 
Abyss. 1835, p. 25 ; Sund. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1842, p. 201; Heugl. Faun. B.oth. Meer., 
Peterm. Mittb. 1861, p. 16; id. Ant. u. Biiff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) 1863, 
p. 7; id. Eeise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 102; Hartm. Zeitscli. Ges. Erdk. Berl. iii. 1868, p. 254; 
et auct. 
Gazella soemmerringii, Jard. Nat. Libr. (1) iii. 1835, p. 215, pi. xxviii.; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1867, p. 817, pi. xxxvii. (yg.); Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. i. 1869, p. 158; Blanford, Geol. 
Zool. Abyss. 1870, p. 260 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 701 (Suez ?); Ward, Horn Meas. 
(1) p. 108, (2) 1896, p. 150; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, 1893, p. 236 (fig. bead) ; Sclater & 
Thomas, Book of Antelopes, iii. 1898, p. 195, pi. Ixx. (typical subspecies) ; Elliot, in Great 
and Small Game of Afr. 1899, p. 361, pi. x. fig. 4; Sitwell, ibid. p. 364 (Suakin). 
Size large ; height at withers 35^ inches in an old male of the Somali subspecies; 
animals from the Red Sea littoral measure somewhat less. General colour very pale 
fawn and very uniform everywhere, as there are neither light nor dark lateral bands 
nor any pygal bands. Central facial band black or blackish fulvous, contrasting 
markedly with the white lateral facial streaks. Dark facial streaks also black 
but narrow. Sides of muzzle black, continuous wdth the central facial band. Back of 
ears whitish, margined and tipped with black. White of rump very broad and 
extended, projecting far into the body-colour which is broadly cut off from the tail. 
Tail white basally, with a black terminal tuft. Knee-brushes present, whitish or 
fawn. 
Horns long, nearly circular in section, heavily ringed. In the typical subspecies 
they are but little divergent for their basal half, but then curve widely outwards 
above, their tips being again abruptly hooked inwards so as to point almost directly 
towards each other. 
The horns of a male obtained by Dr. Anderson near Suakin measure 14^ inches or 
36 cm. in length, 10^- inches or 26'5 cm. in their widest spread, and 14'5 cm. from tip 
to tip. The horns of a female measure 30‘5 cm. in length. 
In a MS. note Dr. Anderson says:—“ In December the plain behind Suakin is quite 
green and covered with shrubs, very few of which exceed 4 feet in height; a feAv 
isolated ones rising to 9 feet. Ariel Antelope abound at this season. I saw one herd 
of 50 close at hand and many others.” 
The typical form is found along the coast-lands of the Red Sea from Suakin 
to Tajurah, and inland to the Nile Valley from Berber district to the Atbara. It is 
commonly known as ‘ Ariel.’ 
A rather larger form with narrower horns is very plentiful in Somaliland, where it 
is known as ‘ Aoul.’ — W. E. de W. 
