_Alcelaphus bubalinus_, =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 335 (1891). _Boselaphus caama_ (partim), =Heugl.= Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leopold. xxx. pt. ii.) p. 22, pl. 1. fig. 3 (horns) (1863). _Acronotus lelwel_, =Heugl.= Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 124 (1877). VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Begra el Ouach_, Arabs of Algeria (_Lataste_); _Bekker-el-wash_, Arabs of Palestine (_Tristram_); _Kargum_ of Saharan Tuaregs; _Karia_ in Bagirmi (_Nachtigal_). “_Lelwel_,” “_Alalüehl_,” and some others of Schweinfurth’s names also probably belong here. Size small; height at withers only about 43 inches, and therefore markedly less than in the other species. Facial hairs reversed upwards for about two inches on the nose, then slanting downwards from a point on the forehead just below the horns, where there is a twisted whorl from which the hairs radiate in all directions. Colour uniform pale rufous or fawn, entirely without darker patches on forehead, chin, or limbs; there is, however, an ill-defined patch of greyish on each side of the muzzle above the nostrils; lower part of rump not whitish. Tail black on the terminal tuft only, the rest like the back. Skull long, but the elongation less than in _B. caama_. _Approximate_ dimensions:--basal length 13 inches, greatest breadth 4·8, muzzle to orbit 10[3]. Facial length from between the horns to the tip of the nasals 13·5 inches; breadth of the forehead, across the frontal horn-support, 4·0. Horns diverging from each other at an even rounded curve, so as together to form a U when viewed from the front, a method of curvature only found in this and the next species. In length, when measured round the curves, they attain to a little more than 14 inches. _Hab._ Northern Africa (interior of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis) and Arabia. The Bubal (_Bubalis_ or _Bubalus_) is one of the few Antelopes known to the ancient writers, being included by Herodotus among the beasts of Libya, and being likewise mentioned by Aristotle, Æschylus, and Pliny. The Bubal is also referred to in the Old Testament and called “Yachmur”--a term which has been incorrectly translated in the authorized version as “Fallow Deer.” Under this name it is included in the list of the daily provisions of King Solomon (i. Kings, iv. 23) as one of the animals brought to the royal table. Coming to more modern days we find that in the time of Dr. Thomas Shaw, F.R.S., of Queen’s College, Oxford (who was resident twelve years at Algiers as British Chaplain), the Bubal was abundant on the north of the Atlas. Dr. Shaw (‘Travels in Barbary and the Levant,’ Oxford, 1738), in his “Physical and Miscellaneous Observations on the Natural History of Algiers and Tunis,” tells us:--