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Identifier: bookofantelopes318942scla (find matches)
Title: The book of antelopes
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, ill Williams, Alpheus F., former owner. DSI National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Antelopes
Publisher: London : R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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re shorter, thicker, more curved, and betterannulated. The habits of both, he continues, are nearly alike; they goin moderate-sized herds of from three to ten, and resort mostly to stony orsandy undulating ground or ravines thinly dotted over with mimosas. Bothspecies are fond of salt and do not require water. It is hard to understandwhat they can pick up to eat in the wretched ground which they frequent.They have a curiosity which amounts almost to impudence, but are 135 wonderfully on the alert, and hard to shoot, seeming to know perfectly wellthe range of a rifle, and presenting but a very small target. Capt. R. Light, writing to Sclater in 1892, tells us that when he visitedSomaliland in 1891 he found this Gazelle between Berbera and Zeila, closedown by the sea : they were often observed feeding side by side with camelsand flocks of sheep and goats. When startled they move off the ground in aquick trot, taking bounds over any obstacles and finally breaking into agallop. Fig. 65 a.
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Head of Pelzelns Gazelle, <y. Skull of Pelzelns Gazelle, $ . (From Swaynes Somaliland, p. 317.) Mr. Pease, who has kindly supplied us with notes on this Gazelle as wellas on the preceding species, writes that Pelzelns Gazelle is essentially thespecies of the maritime plain and could be seen within shot of the town ofBulhar when he was there in 1896, and within a mile or so of Berbera. Inlife it appears of a light rich yellow-buff in colour, with the usual Gazellinemarks rather faintly indicated. Its coat is short and fine, and its horns are t2 136 straighter and longer than those of G. shekel. The horns of the female areweak and almost smooth, like those of Spekes Gazelle. Within fifty milesof the sea-shore, he continues, this Gazelle is exceedingly numerous insuitable places. Half-a-dozen herds may be often seen at a time, but I haveseldom observed more than twenty in a single band. In size G. pelzelni islarger than G. spekei, the average height being about 25 inches, while thewei

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