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
_Cemas kevella_, =Oken=, Lehrb. Nat. iii. pt. 2, p. 738 (1816).
_Gazella kevella_, =Jard.= Nat. Misc. (1) vii. p. 208, pl. xxvi.
(1842).
_La Corine_, =Buff.= Hist. Nat. xii. p. 261, pl. xxvii. (1764),
whence
_Antilope corinna_, =Pall.= Misc. Zool. p. 7 (1766); =Erxl.=
Syst. R. A. p. 291 (1777); =Zimm.= Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 118
(1780); =Schreb.= Säug. pl. cclxxi. (1785); =Bodd.= Elench.
Anim. p. 143 (1785); =Gmel.= Linn. S. N. i. p. 188 (1788);
=Kerr=, Linn. An. K. p. 313 (1792); =Link=, Beytr. Nat. ii. p.
99 (1795); =Bechst.= Uebers. vierf. Thierr. ii. p. 645 (1800);
=Desm.= N. Dict. d’H. N. (1) vi. p. 219 (1803), xxiv. Tabl. p.
33 (1804); =G. Fisch.= Zoogn. iii. p. 430 (1814); =Desm.= N.
Dict. d’H. N. (2) ii. p. 184 (1816); =Goldf.= Schr. Säug. v. p.
1193 (1818); =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. iv. p. 214, v. p. 333 (1827).
_Cerophorus (Gazella) corinna_, =Blainv.= Bull. Soc. Philom.
1816, p. 75.
_Cemas maculata_, =Oken=, Lehrb. Nat. iii. pt. 2, p. 738 (1816).
_Gazella dorcas sundevalli_, =Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p.
159 (1869).
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Rhozal_ or _Hemar_ of Arabs of Algeria
(_Pease_); _Ghasala_ of Arabs (_Tristram_).
Size small; height at withers 21–22 inches. General colour pale fawn,
rather variable in tone. Facial markings distinct; central band
rufous fawn; streaks from eye to mouth brownish fawn, contrasting
with the white bands between them. Ears long, whitish fawn behind.
Light lateral band present, but not strongly marked; dark lateral band
brown, considerably darker than the back, but not black. Pygal band
indistinct. Knee-tufts present.
Skull rather lightly built; nasals narrow; anteorbital fossæ large and
deep. Basal length 6·6 inches, greatest breadth 3·35, muzzle to orbit
3·55.
Horns of medium length, but quite different in their shape to those of
any other species, although the difference is not very easy to explain.
Primarily it may be said that they are flattened laterally, are evenly
divergent as they curve backwards, reapproach terminally, and have
their tips bent upwards in a well-marked curve. But in addition to this
simple curvature, the middle portion of each horn is lyrated outwards,
so that the longest diameter of the horn-section above is quite in a
different plane to what it is at the base; it is in consequence of
this lyration that the horns, apart altogether from the curved tips,
reapproach each other terminally, while in all other species such
reapproach as occurs is entirely due to the incurving of the tips. The
lyration and curvature of the horns are well shown in our figure (p.
108), and a comparison of it with those of _GG. przewalskii_, _marica_,
_tilonura_, and _soemmerringi_ will show how different the method of
terminal approximation is in this species as compared with them.
_Female._ Similar to the male, but horns slender, slightly curved,
from one-half to three-fourths the length of those of the male.
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