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In order to make the best amends for this barring of the 

 latter name, I have suggested that the English designation 

 of Gazella fuscifrons should be Kennion's gazelle. Ken- 

 nion's gazelle, it may be observed, is a large species 

 characterised by the presence of horns in the female and 

 the comparatively slight incurving of the tips of those 

 of the bucks. On the other hand, the females of Gazella 

 seistanica are devoid of horns, while those of the bucks 

 curve in markedly at the tips, as is well shown in the 

 illustration ; while the bucks have a peculiar glandular 

 swelling in the throat similar to that which gives the 

 name of goitred gazelle to an allied Persian species (G. 

 subgutturosa), this "goitre" being absent in Kennion's 

 gazelle. From the Persian species the new Seistan gazelle 

 is broadly distinguished by its superior size, longer ears, 

 and the much smaller extent of the white area on the 

 rump. The photograph was taken, I believe, from tame 

 specimens in the possession of Major Kennion, who is to 

 be congratulated not only on the discovery of this species 

 of gazelle, but on being the first to make us fully ac- 

 quainted with a second. 



(3) Published in ' Country Life/ 



A few weeks ago you were good enough to publish 

 a photograph of two bucks of the newly - discovered 

 Seistan gazelle (Gazella seistanica), together with a note 

 on that species, and the very different Kennion's gazelle 

 (G. fuscifrons) of the same district. Thanks to Major 

 Kennion, I am now in a position to show the marked 

 difference between the horns of the two species. In 

 the accompanying photograph 1 of thirteen heads the 

 eight upper figures represent bucks of the Seistan 



1 Photograph, page 127. 



