In February, 1892, the Zoological Society of London received as a gift from Lt.-Col. Talbot, then British resident at Muscat, along with a Beatrix Antelope (_Oryx beatrix_), a small female Gazelle, with the information that it had been obtained from the Bahrein Islands, in the Persian Gulf. Sclater was at first much puzzled to give a name to this Gazelle, but after some hesitation came to the conclusion that it might be a small female of the Indian _Gazella bennetti_, which is known to extend along the coast of Baluchistan nearly to the Persian Gulf, and accordingly entered it in the Society’s Register[7] under that name. This animal, however, which is still living in the Society’s Gardens, is undoubtedly a female of the present species. On reference to the late Theodore Bent’s paper on the Bahrein Islands (P. R. G. S. xii. p. 8, 1890) it will be found stated that on the desert which occupies the greater part of the largest island of the group “a small Gazelle is abundant,” and is often hunted by the Bahreini Arabs with hawk and hounds. There can be little doubt that this Gazelle is _G. marica_. Our illustration of the Marica Gazelle (Plate LVI.) has been taken by Mr. Smit from the typical specimen from Nejd in the British Museum, and represents an adult male. _January,_ 1898. [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES PL. LVII. _Wolf del J Smit lith_ _Hanhart imp._ The Dorcas Gazelle. GAZELLA DORCAS. _Published by R. H. Porter_] 87. THE DORCAS GAZELLE. GAZELLA DORCAS (LINN.). [PLATE LVII.] _Gazella africana, cornibus brevibus_, =Ray=, Quadr. p. 80 (1693), whence _Capra dorcas_, =Linn.= Syst. Nat. (10) i. p. 69 (1758), (12) i. p. 96 (1766).