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90. 4. 20. 9. Skin, mounted, in summer coat. Saiar 

 Mountains. Type. 



Presented ly St. George Littledale, Esq., 1890. 

 90. 4. 20. 10. Skin. Same locality. Same history. 

 90. 4. 20. 1 1. Skin and skeleton, female. Same locality. 



Same history. 

 90. 4. 20. 12. Skin, immature. Same locality. 



Same history. 



12. 4. 1. 180. Skin. Southern Zungaria ; collected by 



Douglas Carruthers, Esq. Purchased, 1912. 



12. 4. 1. 183. Skull and skin, immature female. Same 



locality. Same history. 



V. GAZELLA YAEKANDENSIS. 



Gazella gutturosa, Forsyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 324, nee 

 Pallas. 



Gazella subgutturosa yarkandensis, Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, vol. xliv, pt. 2, p. 112, 1879, Zool. *2nd Yarkand Mission, 

 Mamm. p. 88, pi. xv, 1879, Sclater and Thomas, Boole of 

 Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 94, 1898 ; Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. 

 France, vol. xi, p. 187, 1898 ; Lydekker, Great and Small Game 

 of India, etc. p. 180, 1900, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 196, 

 1907. 



Gazella yarcandensis, Lydekker, Nature, vol. Ixxxiii, p. 202, 1910, 

 Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 31, 1913 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, ed. 6, p. 247, 1910, ed. 7, p. 243, 1914. 



SAIKIK, or KIK ; YARKAND GAZELLE. 



Typical locality plains of Yarkand, Chinese Turkestan. 



The specimen figured by Blanford, which cannot be 

 definitely identified, must be regarded as the type. Eesembles 

 subgutturosa in the absence of horns in the females and the 

 "goitre" in the throat of the males, but differs by its 

 superior size shoulder-height about 29 inches well- 

 developed face-markings, larger ears, and more sublyrate 

 horns, which have comparatively few (about 14) ridges ; the 

 white area on the buttocks is, moreover, somewhat larger, 

 extending upwards on each side of the root of the tail. 

 General colour light rufous brown, or dark fawn ; median 

 dark face-stripe running right up forehead and splitting to 

 terminate at base of each horn ; between the light stripes, 

 with the exception of a narrow streak, the greater part of 



