Gazella dorcas, var. 3, Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 57 (1852).
Gazella cineraceus, Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 193 (1853) (from Kevel gris, F. Cuv.).
Gazella corinna, Loche, Cat. Mamm. Alg. p. 13 (1850); id. Expl. Alg., Mamm. p. 68 (1867) (nec Pall.).
Gazella kevella, Tristram, Great Sahara, p. 387 (1860); Lataste, Mamm. Barbarie (Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. xxxix.), sep. cop. p. 172 (1885); Buxton, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 363.
Vernacular Names:—Edmi of Arabs of Algeria (Pease); Edem in Tunis (Whitaker).
Size comparatively large; height at withers about 26 or 27 inches. Hair rather long, rough and coarse. General colour dull fawn. Face-markings distinct; the central facial band brownish fawn, with a black patch on the top of the nose, in front of which the muzzle is white. Ears long, pointed, their backs fawn. Dark lateral line and pygal band distinct, darker than back; light lateral line present, but little defined. Knee-brushes distinct.
Basal length of skull 7·35 inches, greatest breadth 3·6, muzzle to orbit 4·45.
Horns rather short in proportion to the size of the animal, thick, strongly ribbed, very slightly curved backwards, and but little divergent from each other; the tips slightly curved upwards and forwards.
Female. Similar, but horns shorter, slenderer, and straighter.
Hab. Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis.