The first living examples of Soemmerring’s Gazelle received by the Zoological Society were purchased of a dealer in August 1867. The announcement of their arrival, which appeared in the ‘Proceedings’ for November 14th of that year, was accompanied by a beautiful lithographic plate of the young pair drawn by Mr. Wolf. In 1871 a fine young male example of this Antelope was presented by Mr. Charles McIver, Jun., with the information that the specimen had been obtained in the desert on the Red Sea coast about 100 miles south of Suez. If this was correct, the range of this Antelope would appear to extend considerably further north than we know of upon any other authority. Other specimens of this Antelope were obtained in 1877, 1879, 1892, and 1895, including a fine pair from Suakin presented by Col. Holled Smith, C.B., in July 1892. At the present moment, also, there is a fine male of this Antelope in the Society’s Gardens, obtained by purchase in 1897.
Our representation of this Antelope (Plate LXX.) was drawn by Mr. Wolf under Sir Victor Brooke’s directions, and put upon the stone by Smit. It is that of an adult male example, but we unfortunately do not know from what specimen it was taken.
September, 1898.
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. LXXI
J. Smit del. et lith.
Hanhart imp.
The Red-necked Gazelle.
GAZELLA RUFICOLLIS.
Published by R. H. Porter.