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
As we have already stated, the typical specimen of this Gazelle,
formerly in the Zoological Society’s Collection, is now in the British
Museum, as is also a stuffed female, originally presented by H.M.
the Queen to the Zoological Society, but transferred to the National
Collection in 1855. In the British Museum Gallery of Mammals will be
found a good adult stuffed specimen of this Gazelle stated to be from
near Biskra, Algeria, and presented by Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker. There are
also some frontlets and horns of this species from the same locality
presented by Messrs. Rowland Ward & Co.
We are greatly indebted to Sir Edmund Loder for a photograph of a head
of a female of this Gazelle, taken from a specimen in his collection,
which he himself shot on the 27th of February, 1893, on the Ahmar
Khaddou Mountains, two days’ march east of Biskra. It shows very
clearly the inferior size of the horns in this sex, and the long ears
characteristic of the species.
[Illustration: Fig. 59.
Front view of head of Edmi Gazelle, ♀.
(From a photograph.)]
Our illustration of the male of this Gazelle (Plate LVIII.) has been
drawn by Mr. Smit from the Algerian specimen in the British Museum
above referred to.
_January,_ 1898.
[Illustration:
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. LIX.
_J. Smit del. et lith._ _Hanhart imp._
The Arabian Gazelle.
GAZELLA ARABICA.
_Published by R. H Porter._]
89. THE ARABIAN GAZELLE.
GAZELLA ARABICA (LICHT.).
[PLATE LIX.]
_Antilope arabica_, =Licht.= Darst. Säug. pl. vi. (1827);
=Ehrenb.= Symb. Phys. Decas i. pl. v. (1828); =Fisch.= Syn.
Mamm. p. 460 (1829); =Less.= Compl. Buff. x. p. 287 (1836);
=Waterh.= Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z. S. (2) p. 40 (1838); =Oken=,
Allg. Nat. vii. p. 1371 (1838); =Gerv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. Supp.
i. p. 261 (1840); =Less.= N. Tabl. R. A. Mamm. p. 176 (1842);
=Wagn.= Schr. Säug. Suppl. iv. p. 407 (1844), v. p. 403 (1855);
=Reichenb.= Säug. iii. pl. xxxiii. fig. 188 (1845); =Schinz=,
Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 399 (1845); =id.= Mon. Antil. p. 4, pl. ii.
(1848); =Gieb.= Säug. p. 307 (1853); =Heugl.= Faun. roth. Meer,
Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 16; =id.= Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N.
Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) p. 5 (1863).
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