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forehead. The white on the buttocks is represented 

 as extending more on to the sides than is the case 

 with the typical Persian gazelle in winter dress. 



The horns in a number of skulls of this gazelle 

 collected by the late Mr. Dalgleish in Yarkand and 

 presented by Mr. Hume to the British Museum are 

 longer and stouter than those of the typical Persian 

 a^azelle, and specially characterised by the less numerous 

 ridees, which seldom exceed sixteen. The deg^ree of 

 divergence ot the horns varies, and does not seem to 

 be of much importance. A pair from Yarkand in the 

 possession of Mr. Hume measures i6 inches in length 

 along the curve and 5 inches in basal circumference. 



It thus seems that the Yarkand gazelle is a well- 

 characterised race, distinguished from the typical 

 Persian gazelle by superior size, the longer and less 

 numerously ridged horns, the more pronounced face- 

 markings, the fawn-coloured forehead, and the greater 

 amount of white on the buttocks. An approach to the 

 Yarkand race is, however, so far as face-markings are 

 concerned, made by the representative ot this gazelle 

 from Baluchistan ; while a Persian skull presented 

 by Dr. Blanford to the British Museum has horns 

 more like those of the Yarkand race than is usually 

 the case. 



The skulls shown in fig. 29 came from Eastern 

 (Chinese) Turkestan, two of them being from Lob 

 Nor, on the western border of that territory near the 

 Gobi desert. They are thus within the distributional 

 area of the present species ; that of the Mongolian 

 gazelle being Northern and Eastern Mongolia. They 

 are, moreover, much longer than typical horns of that 

 species, and apparently present no characters by which 

 they can be distinguished from those of the present 

 animal. Moreover, the nasal bones of these skulls 

 have the notched terminal extremities by which the 

 goitred gazelle may be distinguished from both the goa 

 and the MongoHan gazelle, in which the terminal 



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