The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
So far as we know, but one specimen of Speke’s Gazelle has as yet
reached this country alive. This was a young male, presented to the
Zoological Society’s Menagerie in November last year by Dr. L. de
Gébert, who had obtained it at Djibutil, the French port of Abyssinia.
Unfortunately it did not live long in captivity, but after its death
Sclater, with Mr. F. E. Beddard’s kind assistance, was able to examine
the specimen more closely. It exhibited a slight protuberance on the
nose, as shown in the figure (fig. 64), which by the kindness of the
Zoological Society we are enabled to reproduce on the present occasion.
Underneath the skin of the nose was a slight cavity, which was easily
inflated into a protuberance by blowing air into the nostrils. But
dissection, which was carried out by Mr. Beddard, revealed no trace of
any glandular structure.
[Illustration: Fig. 64.
Head of young male Speke’s Gazelle.
(P. Z. S. 1897, p. 920.)]
The collection of the British Museum contains a good mounted example
of this Gazelle (procured from Herr Menges, and originally obtained
from Gerbatir in Somaliland), from which the coloured figure (Plate
LXI.) has been prepared by Mr. Smit. There is likewise in the Museum
a good series of skins and skulls from different places in Somaliland
collected and presented by Mr. T. W. H. Clarke, Capt. H. G. C. Swayne,
R.E., Col. Arthur Paget, and Mr. Ford G. Barclay. From one of these our
figure (p. 128) of a good adult head of this Gazelle has been prepared
by Mr. Smit; while that of the female (p. 129) has been drawn from
a mounted head kindly lent to us for that purpose by Mr. Frederick
Gillett, F.Z.S.
_May,_ 1898.
[Illustration:
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. LXII.
_J. Smit lith._ _Hanhart imp._
Pelzeln’s Gazelle.
GAZELLA PELZELNI.
_Published by R. H. Porter._]
92. PELZELN’S GAZELLE.
GAZELLA PELZELNI, KOHL.
[PLATE LXII.]
_Gazella spekei_, =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1884, p. 540; =Lort Phillips=,
P. Z. S. 1885, p. 931 (_nec_ Blyth).
_Gazella pelzelni_, =Kohl=, SB. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1886,
p. 4; =id.= Ann. Mus. Wien, i. p. 76, pls. iii. & iv. fig. 1
(animal & skull) (1886); =Thos.= P. Z. S. 1891, p. 211; =Scl.=
P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 100 & 118; =Swayne=, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 306;
=Ward=, Horn Meas. (1) p. 113 (1892), (2) p. 155 (1896); =Lyd.=
Horns and Hoofs, p. 238 (1893); =Swayne=, Somaliland, p. 316
(fig., head) (1895); =Hoyos=, Aulihan, p. 178, pl. x. fig. 1
(1895); =Elliot=, Publ. Chicago Mus. Zool. i. p. 119 (1897).
VERNACULAR NAME:--_Dhero_ of Somalis (in common with the last
species) (_Swayne_).
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