Game Animals of India, etc. 



unworn and continued right down to the base, shows 

 that the animal is adult, although not aged. The 

 height at the withers is about 24 inches ; and the 

 horns are relatively long and carry fully twenty ridges. 

 When photographed, there was a short but distinct 

 dark streak on each side of the face from the eye 

 towards the angle of the mouth, but none along the 

 middle of the face, which is white. At the time of its 

 death these lateral marks had almost disappeared, 

 leaving the whole face white. This slight development 

 of the face- markings seems characteristic of adult 

 bucks of the Persian race in Persia itself. In younger 

 bucks and in does of all ages these markings are more 

 developed, the cheek-lines being longer and broader, 

 and the frontal line likewise conspicuous. The whole 

 face is greyish, and the hair of the upper-parts darker 

 and greyer. 



The head of a male shown in plate v, fig. 8, which 

 was obtained by Mr. T. W. Greenfield in Baluchistan 

 and presented by him to the British Museum, differs 

 from the Woburn Abbey buck by the stronger 

 development of the face-markings. The horns, which 

 indicate an animal of approximately the same age as 

 the latter, are of nearly the same relative length, and 

 carry about the same number of ridges. The strongly 

 defined face -markings comprise one frontal and two 

 cheek streaks, as in does ; the former terminating 

 some distance above the muzzle in the shape of an 

 inverted V. For the greater part of their length these 

 streaks are bright fawn-colour, passing into a blackish 

 brown patch near the middle of their length. In spite 

 of this fuller development of the face-markings, this 

 specimen should perhaps be assigned to the typical 

 race, although showing an approximation in the feature 

 mentioned to the Yarkand form. 



Two pairs of horns presented in 1889 by Dr. 

 Aitchison to the British Museum apparently indicate 

 that it is the Persian race which is found in 



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