The Goitred Gazelle 



Afghanistan. Dr. Aitchison brought home hving 

 specimens of this gazelle, which he presented to the 

 London Zoological Gardens ; and a descendant of one 

 of these is stated to form the subject of the plate of 

 the Persian gazelle in the Book of Antelopes^ although 

 it would seem that the artist has largely used the 



Fig. zS. — Persian Goitred Gazelle at Woburn Abbey, from a photograph by the 

 Duchess of Bedford. 



British Museum specimen of the Altai race in making 

 the figure. 



If the foregoing determinations are correct, the 

 typical Persian race of the goitred gazelle is an 

 inhabitant of the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Persia, 

 Baluchistan, and Afghanistan, although its northern 

 limits are not defined. Gazella subgutturosa typica is 

 found everywhere in the Persian highlands, from an 

 elevation of about 3000 to some 4000 feet above the 

 sea-level, but is unknown in the plains bctdering the 



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