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
These differences seem to be quite constant, so far as we have
materials for comparison, and we therefore think that as the Algerian
form has had a name given to it, it may be provisionally retained as a
subspecies, at least until these characters are shown to be variable.
The accompanying figure, for the use of which we are indebted to the
kindness of the Zoological Society, gives a side view of the skull and
horns of the Algerian form.
[Illustration: Fig. 68.
Skull of _Gazella leptoceros loderi_, ♂.
(P.Z.S. 1894, p. 471.)]
Our representations of this Gazelle (Plate LXIII.) have been prepared
by Mr. Smit--that of the male (front figure) from a mounted specimen in
the British Museum obtained by Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker in the Tunisian
Sahara, and presented by him in 1894; that of the female from the
example from Egypt living in the Zoological Society’s Gardens.
In the British Museum are likewise the typical skin and horns of
_Gazella loderi_ obtained by Sir Edmund Loder in the desert about a
hundred miles south of Biskra, some frontlets and horns from Biskra,
presented by Mr. Rowland Ward, and a skin and skull of a female from
Tunis, presented by Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker along with the male now
mounted. The example of _Gazella leptoceros typica_ sent to Sclater by
Mr. Birdwood is also now in the National Collection. We have also to
thank Dr. J. Anderson, F.Z.S., for the loan of a skin and skull of an
old male of the Egyptian form of this Gazelle obtained near the Natron
Lakes in Egypt.
_May,_ 1898.
[Illustration:
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. LXIV.
_Wolf del J Smit lith_ _Hanhart imp._
The Isabella Gazelle.
GAZELLA ISABELLA.
_Published by R.H. Porter._]
94. THE ISABELLA GAZELLE.
GAZELLA ISABELLA, GRAY.
[PLATE LXIV.]
_Antilope dorcas_, =Licht.= Darst. Säug. pl. v. (1827)?
_Gazella dorcas_, =Blanf.= Zool. Abyss, p. 261, pl. i. fig. 1
(1870).
_Gazella isabella_, =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. pp. 214 &
231 (1846); =id.= Knowsl. Men. p. 4 (1850); =id.= P. Z. S. 1850,
p. 113; =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 57 (1852); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones
Mamm. B. M. p. 233 (1862); =Fitz. & Heugl.= SB. Wien, liv. pt.
1, p. 591 (1866); =Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 158 (1869);
=Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 38 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M.
p. 107 (1873); =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 539; =Huet=, Bull.
Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 65; =W. Scl.= Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. ii.
p. 157 (1891); =Ward=, Horn Meas. (1) p. 116 (1892), (2) p. 158
(1896).
_Antilope isidis_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1845, p.
267 (1847); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p.
263; Reprint, p. 83 (1848).
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