English: Plate IX
1. Springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis) head — top left
2. Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas) head of male — 3rd in middle row
3. Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas) head of female — 4th in middle row
4. Edmi gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) head of female — 1st in middle row
5. Edmi gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) head of male — 2nd in middle row
6. Speke's gazelle (Gazella spekei) head — 2nd in top row
7. Pelzeln's gazelle (Gazella dorcas subsp. pelzelnii) head — top right
8. Loder's gazelle (Gazella leptoceros) head — 2nd in third row
9. Heuglin's gazelle (Eudorcas tilonura) head — bottom left
10. Rufous gazelle (Eudorcas rufina) head — bottom right

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Title: Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution…
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Major A.J. Arnold (and 24 others)
Subjects: Game and game-birds Mammals
Publisher: London : Rowland Ward, Limited
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Field Museum's Africa Council

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y. Ihave been told by an old hunter that during this performance the leopardlies on his back with his paws in the air ; but this I cannot vouch formyself. I have, however, seen the curious behaviour of the impalas justdescribed and heard the cries of the leopard, whose identity I estab-lished by examining the spoor in the sandy stream-bed where he washidden from my view by rushes, into which he afterwards retreatedwhen I incautiously alarmed the bucks, imagining one had been alreadycaught. In East Africa these beautiful antelopes do not seem to mix so muchwith other species as they are in the habit of doing in the south ; butthey may sometimes be found in company with Burchells zebra, or, morerarely, giraffe. It is rather a curious circumstance that, whereas in SouthAfrica they constantly associate with the blue wildebeest, in this part ofthe continent the habitats of these two creatures are, so far as my observa-tion goes, altogether distinct. Gre at & Small Game of Africa Pl IX.
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PLATE IX 1. Springbuck Head. 6. Spekes Gazelle Head. 2. Dorcas Gazelle Head (male). 7. Pclzclns Gazelle Head 3. Dorcas Gazelle Head (female). S. Lodcrs Gazelle Head. 4. Edmi Gazelle Head (female). 9. Heuglins Gazelle Hca, 5. Edmi Gazelle Head (male). 10. Rufous Gazelle Head. Impala—Springbuck 331 I am indebted to Mr. F. J. Jackson for the following notes of weightsand dimensions of male impala:—Weight, 134 lbs. to 162 lbs.; height,2 feet 1 of inches to 3 feet l\ inches ; length, 5 feet 5^ inches to 6 feetJ inch. The female is somewhat smaller. a. H. Neumann. The Angolan Impala (/Epyceros peters!) This animal is exactly similar to the ordinary impala or palla of otherparts of Africa, with the exception that the front of the face, from thelevel of the eyes to the nostrils, is marked, exactly in the centre, with apurplish-black streak. Two other dark streaks pass over the eyes, one oneither side of the face. The best recorded pair of horns, obtained byCaptain F. Cookson in the Kaoko-

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