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lost their fear, developed truculency, especially 

 towards anything strange in the way of clothing, 

 as one of our red-coated servants found. He 

 got his hands badly gored in warding off the 

 furious charges of an angry buck. 



The gazelles of Eastern Persia are of two 

 species, one identified by Mr Lydekker with G. 

 fuscifrons (or Kennions' gazelle), and the other 

 named seistanica. The difference in the heads is 

 shown in the illustration, added to which there 

 is the fact that the females of " Kennions' " have 

 horns, while those of seistanica are hornless. The 

 latter is also a rather bigger gazelle than the 

 other, and has also a bigger " goitre.' 7 As for 

 the nomenclature, far be it from me to venture 

 on that thorny ground. Mr Lydekker's letters 

 (Appendix IV.) must speak for themselves. 



The range of Kennions' gazelle seems to extend 

 from Persian Baluchistan as far north as Shusp 

 in Kain. Its discovery, which came about by my 

 shooting a horned doe in mistake for a buck, was 

 a surprise, as no gazelle with horned female was 

 known to exist in this part of Persia. Inquiries 

 I then made from local shikaris elicited the fact 

 that they recognised two kinds of ahu, called 

 respectively buz ahu (goat gazelle, the kind with 

 horned female), and mish ahu (sheep gazelle, with 

 hornless female). There is little difference in the 



