The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)

Name: The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)
Author: Sclater, Philip Lutley

Sclater, Philip Lutley

Antelopes

_b^3._ Tip of horns hooked inwards or upwards, nearly or quite
                 to a right angle.
          _a^4._ General colour pale fawn, the lateral band and other
                   markings also fawn. (Nubia.)  94. _G. Isabella._
          _b^4._ General colour brownish fawn, the lateral band
                   blackish. (Muscat.)           95. _G. muscatensis._
      _b^2._ Dark lateral band black and strongly marked.
        _a^3._ Horns abruptly hooked inwards at the ends. (Abyssinia.)
                                                 96. _G. tilonura._
        _b^3._ Horns not abruptly hooked at end.
          _a^4._ No nose-spot; face uniform rufous.
            _a^5._ Size smaller. (Senegambia.)   97. _G. rufifrons._
            _b^5._ Size larger. (Algeria.)       98. _G. rufina._
          _b^4._ Nose-spot black. (Masai-land.)  99. _G. thomsoni._

    _b^1._ Dark colour of back more or less invaded by white of rump.
      _a^2._ A dark pygal band present.
        _a^3._ Dark colour of back continued in middle line on to the
                 top of the tail. Size smaller. (E. African Coast.)
                                                100. _G. petersi._
        _b^3._ Dark colour of back shut off from tail, which is
                 enclosed in the white anal disk. Size larger.
          _a^4._ Dark lateral bands obsolete, or, in youth, present
                   below the light lateral band only. (Interior of East
                   Africa.)                     101. _G. granti._
          _b^4._ Dark bands present both above and below the light
                   lateral band, uniting with each other behind.
                   (Northern British E. Africa.)102. _G. notata._
      _b^2._ No dark pygal band.
        _a^3._ Tail black-tipped. Horns hooked inwards. (Abyssinian
                 Coast and Somaliland.)         103. _G. soemmerringi._
        _b^3._ Tail all white, or merely tipped with fawn. Horns hooked
                upwards and forwards.
          _a^4._ Neck and anterior back alone rufous; lines of
                 demarcation indistinct. (Kordofan.)
                                                104. _G. ruficollis.
    b^4._ Rufous extending over body and flanks, well defined from the
            white.
      _a^5._ Sides of thighs white, the rufous of body not joining that
              of hind legs. (Senegal.)          105. _G. dama._
      _b^5._ Sides of thighs and legs rufous, continuous with that of
              body. (Morocco.)                  106. _G. mhorr._

  [Illustration:

    THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL LII

    _Wolf del Smit lith_      _Hanhart imp_

  The Tibetan Gazelle.

  GAZELLA PICTICAUDATA.

  _Published by R. H. Porter_]


                       82. THE TIBETAN GAZELLE.

                    GAZELLA PICTICAUDATA (HODGS.).

                             [PLATE LII.]

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