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The owner of this head measured 2 ft. 10 in. at the shoulder. The 

 horns are strongly ringed for about three fourths of their length. 

 This gazelle I believe sticks to the flat and is found both near the 

 coast and on the plateau. The female has horns. My experience of 

 this animal is too limited to warrant any further remarks. 



Gazella naso. 



The buck in size and general appearance resembles the Indian 

 Chinkara (Gaze/la bennettii). The does have much longer and thicker 

 horns than the chinkara. Gazella naso takes its name from the 

 loose pouch of skin it has on the upper surface of the nose. The skin 

 is so loose that if you lay hold of it and pull it forward, it easily 

 covers the uj)per tip. Both bucks and does have it. 



A print of a buck's head is to be found in the P. Z. S. of 1886, 

 evidenth r taken from a stuffed head. The stuffer apparently has 

 stuffed this pouch out as if it were inflated, quite unlike anything I 

 ever saw. I often watched Gazella naso through glasses, and never 

 saw them inflate their pouch. I don't believe they do so. Mr. Sclater, 

 in describing it in the P.Z. S., says, " I think there can be no question 

 «•' of it belonging to an undescribed species which I propose to call 

 ,e Gazella naso. Gazella naso, as its name implies, is sufficiently 

 " distinguishable from all other known members of the genus, by hav- 

 " ino- the extremity of the snout above the nasal openings developed 

 " into a large, flabby -wrinkled mass, which is scantily covered by 

 " short hairs of a grey colour," a description taken from the afore- 

 mentioned stuffed head, which does not accord with my views. I shot 

 eleven of these gazelles, and in no case was there a flabby-wrinkled 

 mass, nor was the skin scantily covered with grey hairs. The skin 

 merely lies loose on the nose with no abnormal flesh or other 

 substance beneath it, and is as well covered with the ordinary 

 yellowish, hair as any other part of the face ; the skin being loose 

 no doubt is wrinkled, but not so as to be very noticeable. In the 

 photograph I took I pulled the loose skin up so as to show it, but it 

 does not stick up like that in the living animal. It would be 

 impossible I think to tell the buck's horns from those of a 

 chinkara. The longest pair I shot measured 10 inches in a 

 straight line from base to tip along the side, and 4 inches 

 round the base. If you measure them in a straight line 

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