The Goitred Gazelle 



extremities of these bones are entire. The same 

 notching of the nasals is observable in the unusually 

 long-horned skull from Kuldja shown in fig. 30. The 

 range of the Yarkand goitred gazelle apparently extends 

 from Eastern Turkestan to Lob Nor and the confines 

 of the Gobi desert. 



Fig. 30. — Skull and Horns of the Yarkand Gazelle from Kuldja, in the 

 possession of Sir E. G. Loder. 



Gazella subgutturosa also ranges into the Altai, 

 where it is represented by a third local race. An adult 

 buck presented to the British Museum in 1891 by Mr, 

 St. George Littledale, and shot in the Sair, or Saiar 

 Mountains, in the Great Altai on the north-western 

 border of Mongolia, nearly due east of a point midway 



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