342 BIG GAME SHOOTING 



Gazella subgutturosa 



is a much smaller beast than the last. It is found in Persia, 1 

 and extends to Yarkand, where a specimen was shot by Major 

 Biddulph when with the Yarkand Mission, between Maral 

 Bashi and Kashgar. It is called by the natives ' djeran,' or 

 ' jairan.' Its general colour is pale red, with dark facial marks, 

 a dark band along the side where the white of the belly joins 

 the red of the back, and above it a curious pale streak. The 

 buck has long, annulated, lyrate horns, with the tips inclining 

 inwards. It measures 27^ ins. in height, and the horns of 

 a specimen quoted in the ' Scientific Results, Second Yarkand 

 Mission,' measured 14 ins. in length by 5 ins. in girth. 

 There is a coloured plate of one in the same publication. 



Major Cumberland, in his journal published by ' Land and 

 Water,' mentions hawking these gazelles with trained eagles. 

 He says that the doe is not much bigger than Gazella Bennetti, 

 with short stumpy horns. 



XLVI. THE THIBETAN GAZELLE (Gazella picticaudata, 

 Procapra picticaudata W A R D ) 



Thibetan ' Goa ' 



This lovely little animal is of. a creamy fawn colour in its 

 winter coat. It has a white anal disc of longish hair, and a 

 black tail about four inches long, which, like the Indian 

 gazelle, it keeps perpetually wagging. The summer coat is 

 slaty grey. The horns are like those of the Indian gazelle, 

 but are longer, of finer grain, and have a far bolder sweep 

 backwards before turning up at the tips. The female has no 

 horns. It frequents the high plateaux along the Chinese 

 frontier, in Eastern Ladak, in the neighbourhood of the Tso- 

 moriri Lake, but apparently does not extend north of the 



1 This antelope is also found in the Caucasus, between Tiflis and the 

 Caspian, where it is also locally known as cljSran. C.P.W. 



