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derived from Persia or whether it is indigenous to the 

 Alps. Information is also desirable as to whether any 

 of the species of true ibex have real bezoar stones, and 

 also whether vegetable and hair balls like those of the 

 chamois are ever found in the stomachs of wild goats 

 and ibex. 



APPENDIX IV. 



THE GAZELLES OF EASTERN PERSIA. 

 Notes by Mr R. LTDEKKER. 



(1) Published in ' Nature ' 1 



Major R. L. Kennion, British Consul at Seistan, has 

 had the good fortune to bring to light what are 

 practically two new species of gazelle from the Kain 

 and Seistan districts of eastern Persia, specimens of 

 both of these, presented by Major Kennion, being ex- 

 hibited in the Natural History Museum. Of the first 

 of these species, typified by the mounted head of a 

 buck from Kain, two notices by myself appeared in ' The 

 Field' newspaper for 1908 (vol. cxi., pp. 70 and 499). 

 In the earlier of these it was compared to the edmi 

 gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) and Merrill's gazelle (G. merrili) of 

 Palestine, with the former of which, and probably also 

 with the latter, it agrees in the presence of horns in 

 the female. Compared with the type-skull of Merrill's 

 gazelle figured by Mr O. Thomas in the 'Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society' for 1904, vol. ii., p. 348, the head 



1 Communicated by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 



