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Show 1894.] MR. 0. THOMAS ON GAZELLES FROM ALGERIA. 471 hind-foot, without hoof (c.) 280 ; length of fore hoof 64, of hind ones 56 ; tail without hairs, 90. (Skull, see p. 472.) Fig. 2. Skull of Gazella loderi. Hab. Sand-dunes of Oued Souf, about 100 miles south of Biskra. (See field-notes by Sir E. Loder, p. 473.) _ This remarkable little Gazelle is readily distinguishable from all other species by its pallid colour, semi-obsolete markings, slender divergent horns, and long narrow hoofs. Its habitat, as m ay be seen by the field-notes of its collector, is somewhat inaccessible, and it is therefore the less surprising that examples fit for description have not previously fallen into the hands of naturalists. Its horns have, however, long been purchasable at Biskra, and the first I had seen were bought there by Mr. Bowland Ward, and submitted to m e for examination about two years ago, but the horn characters were too little marked 31* |