FOOTNOTES:
[1] This species, although mentioned last in Pallas’s List, may be taken as the type of the genus, because the term “Antilope” is clearly based on Ray’s and Buffon’s name for the Black-buck (The Antelope; l’Antilope), quoted and identified by Pallas, and only used up to this date for this particular species. The ordinary justification for the same course, based on de Blainville’s revision of 1816, is, as in so many other cases, invalidated by the earlier work of Lichtenstein, by whom the Black-buck was placed among the “Gazellæ,” and not among the “Antilopæ genuinæ.”
[2] Saiga prisca, Nehring, N. Jahrb. f. Min., Geol. u. Pal. ii. p. 131 (1891).
[3] This species may be taken as the type of Gazella, as being the only one which is common to Lichtenstein’s original genus and to Blainville’s “Gazella” of 1816. The latter author is ordinarily quoted as the original founder of the name, and his list includes the best known species—G. dorcas. But Lichtenstein’s genus, two years earlier in date, does not contain G. dorcas at all, and the only way in which the name Gazella can be properly retained for this group is by regarding G. subgutturosa as its type.
[4] Przewalski’s ‘Mongolia,’ Morgan’s Translation, ii. pp. 208 et seqq.
[5] Owing to the Plate having been drawn from winter skins, in which the ears are thickly covered with hair, this character is not properly shown in the figures.
[6] See List Vert. An. Z. S. 1883, p. 141.
[7] See P. Z. S. 1892, p. 711.
[8] See P. Z. S. 1895, p. 400.
[9] See P. Z. S. 1874, p. 494.
[10] See Burton’s “Narrative of a Trip to Harar,” Journ. R. G. S. xxv. p. 136 (1855).
[11] See Cat. of Mamm. in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part II., by W. L. Sclater (1891), p. 158.
[12] See Mr. F. L. James’s “Journey through the Somali to the Webbe Shebeyly,” Proc. R. G. S. vii. p. 625 (1885).
[13] ‘Seventeen Trips through Somaliland.’ London, Rowland Ward, 1895.
[14] See under Gazella marica, above, p. 95.
[15] ‘The Rise of our East-African Empire,’ i. p. 535.
[16] Misprinted Litocranius in the original description. The name is based on the solid stony character of the cranium (λιθος = lapis).
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.
3. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.