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in Baluchistan, although in 'Eastern Persia* he had 

 rightly referred to it as forming the southern edge of the 

 Seistan desert), identified fuscifrons with bennetti, on the 

 ground that a male obtained by Sir 0. St John appeared 

 inseparable from the latter. From the fact, however, 

 that the Kain district, which is the northern continuation 

 of the Seistan desert, is the home of a large gazelle 

 allied to bennetti, in the presence of horns in the female 

 and the small extent of the white area on the rump, but 

 with larger ears and rather more sublyrate horns, there 

 can be no doubt that this gazelle is no other than 

 fuscifrons, which must be re-established as a species. 

 Gazella yarcandensis kennioni therefore becomes G. fusci- 

 frons, although Kennion's gazelle may be retained as the 

 English name. 



This being so, it is doubtful whether the Indian G. ~ben- 

 netti really occurs in Persia at all. In ' Eastern Persia ' 

 Dr Blanford stated that he obtained a male referable to 

 that species from the Bampur district of eastern Persia 

 (alluded to as being in Baluchistan), which differed from 

 Indian examples only in some details of the horns, adding 

 that he believed this gazelle to extend on the lowlands to 

 the head of the Persian Gulf, while above the 3000-foot 

 contour it was replaced by the goitred gazelle, distinguish- 

 able, even at a distance, by its lighter colour. From the 

 new evidence it appears that the lowland gazelle of the 

 Persian Gulf is fuscifrons rather than lennetti. 



The second of the Seistan gazelles is represented by an 

 adult male standing about 39 inches at the shoulder, and 

 characterised by the great size of the ears, the marked in- 

 curving of the tips of the sublyrate horns, and the small 

 extent of the white area on the rump, which does not 

 reach the root of the tail. In most of these features this 

 species resembles the Yarkand gazelle, as it also does in 

 the absence of horns in the female, although it differs by 



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