The book of antelopes . as again described andfigured by Ehrenberg in his Symbolae Physical under the same designation. Ehrenberg informs us that he and his fellow-traveller Hemprich obtainedtheir first specimens of this Gazelle at Hamam el Faraun, on the coast ofthe Sinaitic Peninsula between Suez and Tor, and subsequently found itabundant on the island of Farsan on the Arabian coast of the Red also observed Gazelles which they believed to be of the same speciesnear Baalbec in Syria, but these, we think, are more likely to have beenGazella dorcas. 117 Succeeding authorities have adde
The book of antelopes . as again described andfigured by Ehrenberg in his Symbolae Physical under the same designation. Ehrenberg informs us that he and his fellow-traveller Hemprich obtainedtheir first specimens of this Gazelle at Hamam el Faraun, on the coast ofthe Sinaitic Peninsula between Suez and Tor, and subsequently found itabundant on the island of Farsan on the Arabian coast of the Red also observed Gazelles which they believed to be of the same speciesnear Baalbec in Syria, but these, we think, are more likely to have beenGazella dorcas. 117 Succeeding authorities have added very little to our knowledge of thisGazelle. Canon Tristram, in his Fauna and Flora of Palestine, mentions aGazelle occurring in the desert-country east of the Jordan as being probablyof this species ; but we believe that he did not obtain any good specimens ofit. Dr. Blanford, in his volume on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia, hasfigured (for comparison) a head of this species obtained by Captain Heysham Fig. Head of Arabian Gazelle.(P. Z. S. 1874, p. 141.) near Mocha, Arabia; and in the Zoological Societys Proceedings for1874, the late Sir Victor Brooke gave a woodcut of the head of thisGazelle, which, by the kind permission of the Society, we are enabled toreproduce. Living examples of the Arabian Gazelle are easily obtained at Aden andat Hodeidah, Jeddah, and other Arabian ports on the Red Sea, and are oftenbrought to Europe. We have little doubt that the Gazelles in the DerbyMenagerie figured by Waterhouse Hawkins in the third plate of the Gleanings, and there called by Lord Derbys MS. name, Gazella vera, wereof this species, though in the text they are referred to as G. dorcas and in 118 the list of plates as G. cuvieri. The Zoological Society of London appearto have received their first specimens in 1874 *, and since that date (as willbe seen by their published Lists of Animals) have acquired many examples,chiefly by presentation. At the present time ther
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