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Show 86 REV. H.B.TRISTRAM ON THE MAMMALS OF PALESTINE. [Feb. 13, 8. ANTILOPE LEUCORYX, Pall. Common in North Arabia, and found in the Belka and Hauran. Its horns may be purchased at Damascus. 9. ANTILOPE ADDAX, Licht. More strictly confined to the desert regions than the former. I never obtained it, but have seen it near enough to be able to make out distinctly the species by the shape of the horns. Both of these Antelopes are well known to the Bedouin. 10. ALCELAPHUS BUBALIS, Pall. " Bekker-el-wasb," "Wild Cow," of the Arabs. I never saw in Palestine this species, with which I am familiar in North Africa ; but the Jehalin Arabs know it well by the same name, and assure me they often obtain it when it comes to drink at the streams on the east side of the Dead Sea. 11. GAZELLA DORCAS, Pall. " Ghazal," Arab. Extremely common in every part of the country south of Lebanon. It wanders in small bands everywhere, approaching even the gates of Jerusalem. I have seen it on the back of the Mount of Olives. 12. GAZELLA ARABICA, Ehrenb. (=G. cora, H. Smith). Abundant on the east side of Jordan, especially in all the forest glades of Gilead. 13. CERVUS CAPREOLUS, L. Only found, so far as our knowledge extends, in the bare hilly country of North-eastern Galilee. 14. DAM A VULGARIS, Gesn. Rare. A few are still to be found on Mount Tabor, and the woods between that mountain and the gorge of the Litany River. W e met with it once about ten miles west of the Sea of Galilee. Hasselquist mentions having found it on Mount Tabor. M. Lartet has found its teeth in bone-breccia in the Lebanon, but does not appear to have been acquainted with the fact of its present existence in Palestine (see Bull. Soc. Geol. de France, xxii. p. 542). [CERVUS ELAPHUS, L. CERVUS TARANDUS, L. ALCES PALMATUS, Gr. Teeth and bones, ascribed to the Red Deer, Reindeer, and Elk, were found by us imbedded in breccia in the Lebanon, along with flint-flakes, thus proving the former existence of these species in a much lower latitude than had hitherto been ascertained.] |
