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disappeared — the breadth they covered might have been somewhere about half 

 a mile. I stood upon the fore-chest of my wagon for nearly two hours, lost in 

 astonishment at the novel and wonderful scene before me, and had some 

 difficulty in convincing myself that it was a reality which I beheld, and not 

 the wild and exaggerated picture O'f a hunter's dream. 



The goa or Thibetan gazelle is distinguished by the white disc around the 

 tail, the long winter-coat, short ears and tail, the greatly curved horns and the 

 uniform color of the face. The height of the animal is twenty-four inches; 



PHOTOGRAPH OF MALE GIRAFFE GAZELLE. AN EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL AND RARE SPECIES, RECENTLY 



FOUND IN EAST AFRICA. 



and the largest recorded horns measure fifteen and three-quarter inches in 

 length; the number of rings varying from twenty tO' thirty. This gazelle 

 inhabits the Thibetan plateau at elevations O'f from thirteen thousand to eight- 

 een thousand feet, and goes in small parties of from two or three tO' a dozen. 

 It is less shy than other species. 



Another of the true gazelles is characterized by the white of the rump 

 extending forward in an angle into the fawn-color of the haunci.ies; both 

 sexes having horns, which are frequently longer than in the other groups ; the 

 animals themselves beings also relatively large. 



