GAZELLA. . 467 
DeEscriIPTion.—* Hair in winter rough and coarse, in summer much 
softer and smoother. During both seasons the dirty white of the 
face and cheeks is only relieved by the dark facial streak, which is 
short and narrow, but defined by a sprinkling of rufous hairs; the 
lateral and pygal bands are very faintly indicated, the dark bands 
being more rufous, the light band rather paler than the grey fawn 
colour of the upper parts of the body; breast and belly white ; tail 
and ears moderate in length, the former blackish-rufous. Horns 
absent in the female ; in the male long, annulated and lyrate, the 
points projecting inwards” (Six V. Brooke). According to Blanford, 
who seemed doubtful whether it should not be raised to the rank of a 
species, the Yarkand variety differs from the typical G. swbgutterosa in 
the very much darker markings on the face, and in the much smalier 
degree to which the horns diverge ; he adds, however, that as there is 
some variation in face-markings amongst Persian specimens, it is perhaps 
better to consider the Yarkand race as enly a variety. He gives a very 
good coloured plate of the animal. (‘Sc. Results, Second Yarkand 
Mission—Mammaalia.’) 
No. 459. GAZELLA PICTICAUDATA. 
Thibetan Gazelle. 
NativE NaME.—Goa, Thibetan. 
Hapirat.—Ladakh. Abundant, according to Kinloch, on the plateau 
to the south-east of the Tsomoriri lake, on the hills east of Hanlé, and in 
the Indus valley from Demchok, the frontier village of Ladakh, as far 
down as Nyima. He had also seen it on the Nakpogoding pass to the 
north of the Tsomoriri, and picked up a horn on the banks of the Sutlej 
beyond the Niti pass. 
DeEscripTION.—Hair in winter long and softish; facial and lateral 
markings wanting ; breast, belly and anal disk.which surrounds the 
tail dirty white ; the rest of the body grizzled fawn-colour, becoming _ 
more rusty towards the anal disk, a rusty line sometimes running 
through the disk to the short tail, the tip of which is rusty brown ; 
the hairs about the corners of the mouth elongated. In the summer 
the coat is short and of a slaty-grey colour. Ears very short ; horns 
long, annulated — diverge as they rise, bending forwards and _back- 
wards, again forwards, and a little inwards at the tips. Skull: ante- 
orbital fossa very shallow, nasals converging to a point, and rather 
elongated (Sir Victor Brooke, ‘P. Z. S.,’ 1873, p. 547). 
SizE.—Height, about 18 inches. 
There is a lovely little photograph of this gazelle in Kinloch’s ‘ Large 
Game of Thibet,’ wonderfully life-like; the head seems to stand out from 
the page. He describes it under Hodgson’s generic name, Procapra, but 
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