The extremely interesting Safaitic rock-drawing recently published by G. Lankester Harding (Annals of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, ii, pp. 29–30) as no. 73 of the inscriptions from the cairn of Hāni’, shows two scenes. One represents goats being herded into a catttle-pen, the other a hunting scene. In the latter three largish animals are being htmted by a man with bow and arrow, a man with upraised arms, and a third man who holds three hunting-dogs by a leash (this, rather than Harding's ‘ whip or long rope ’, is surely the correct interpretation of the line which extends from the man's hand round the heads of the dogs). Harding confesses himself unable to identify the animals being hunted. Two at least of these, however, are very clearly characterized in the drawing by long straight horns and a long tail with a tuft at the end. The combination of these characteristics indicates pretty clearly, I suggest, that the animals are intended to represent the oryx (see the Encyclopedia Britannica description of this animal).