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the pairing-season, the present species differs in possessing more or less 

 strongly pronounced dark markings on the face, by the longer tail and 

 horns, and the notching of the nasal bones of the skull. The does, at 

 least normally, are without horns ; and the large white rump-patch of the 

 goa is wanting. From 24 to 27 inches represents approximately the 

 shoulder-height ot the species. The coat is long and shaggy in winter, 

 when it becomes almost white, but shorter in summer, when it is tawn- 

 coloured. 



The typical, or Persian, race of the species ranges trom Baluchistan 

 through Persia to Asia Minor and the Caucasus. It is of relatively small 

 size, with long horns, and the face-markings generally not very strongly 

 developed, being restricted in the winter coat to a pair of lateral dark 

 streaks extending; trom the eves nearlv to the angles of the mouth. 



A good account ot the distribution of the Persian goitred gazelle will 

 be tound in Mr. W. T. Blanford's Zoology and Geology of Eastern Pers/d. 

 According to Dr. K. Satunin's oft-quoted memoir on the mammals of the 

 Caucasus,^ the goitred gazelle is common throughout the desert tract ot 

 Eastern Transcaucasia, being especially numerous in the Mugan steppe. 

 Nordmann also records it from the upper part of the valley of the Araxes, 

 that is to say, in the plain dividing Mount Ararat trom the mountains ot 

 Achalzik. It does not occur in the Great Caucasus, which, indeed, is not 

 a tract suitable to its habits. 



THE YARKAND GOITRED GAZELLE 



(Gazella suhgiiiturosa yarcandcnsis) 



This race of the goitred gazelle, which was named by Mr. Blantord in 

 1879, is distinguished from the typical form by its superior size, longer 

 and less numerously ridged horns, more pronounced tace-markings, the 



' Zoologischc Jiih'bt/t/\ vol. ix. p. 310 (1896). 



