GAZELLA PELZELNI.
Published by R. H. Porter.
92. PELZELN’S GAZELLE.
GAZELLA PELZELNI, Kohl.
[PLATE LXII.]
Gazella spekei, Scl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 540; Lort Phillips, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 931 (nec Blyth).
Gazella pelzelni, Kohl, SB. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1886, p. 4; id. Ann. Mus. Wien, i. p. 76, pls. iii. & iv. fig. 1 (animal & skull) (1886); Thos. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 211; Scl. P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 100 & 118; Swayne, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 306; Ward, Horn Meas. (1) p. 113 (1892), (2) p. 155 (1896); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 238 (1893); Swayne, Somaliland, p. 316 (fig., head) (1895); Hoyos, Aulihan, p. 178, pl. x. fig. 1 (1895); Elliot, Publ. Chicago Mus. Zool. i. p. 119 (1897).
Vernacular Name:—Dhero of Somalis (in common with the last species) (Swayne).
Size rather greater than in G. spekei; height at withers about 25 inches. Colour brownish fawn, rather more rufous than G. spekei. Light lateral band distinct; dark band rufous brown, similar to that of the back but rather darker in tone, not blackish. Pygal band distinct, brown. Centre of face dark fawn, without either the black spot or the pale swollen cushion characteristic of G. spekei. Dark and light cheek-bands short and indistinct. Knee-tufts dark brown.
Skull narrower than in G. spekei, and with long narrow nasals, which articulate broadly with the premaxillæ. Basal length in an old male 6·87 inches, greatest breadth 3·25, muzzle to orbit 3·75.
Horns more evenly divergent, much straighter and less curved backwards than in G. spekei, but otherwise similar. In length they attain to about 11 or 12 inches.
Female. Like the male, but the horns much smoother and slenderer, and only about three-fourths the length.