1873. J GAZELLES OF INDIA AND PERSIA. 315 



perhaps somewhat further. Its northern limit is ill known ; but it is 

 probably the Gazelle of Meshed and Herat. On the east it extends 

 nearly to the frontier of India ; it is common in parts of Afghan- 

 istan ; and specimens from Kandahar exist in the Museum of the 

 Asiatic Society in Calcutta. 



2. Gazella bennetti. 



The distribution of this Gazelle in India is the following. It is 

 found throughout the Panjab, North-west Provinces, Rajputana, 

 Sindh (unless replaced in part by the next species), Kachh, Kathi- 

 awad, Gujrat, and the whole Bombay Presidency, with the exception 

 of the western ghats and the low land or Konkan along the western 

 coast south of the neighbourhood of Daman. It is also met with 

 in the Narbada and Tapti valleys, Bandelkand, the Son valley, and 

 Rewah, in the Nagpur and Chanda country, Berar, the Hydrabad 

 territories, and other parts of Southern India, with the complete 

 exception of the Malabar coast and the adjacent hills. Jerdon says 

 it is found "throughout India in suitable localities, unknown in 

 Lower Bengal and the Malabar coast," and leaves it to be inferred 

 that the Gazelle is met with on the plains in the southern portion of 

 the peninsula; but, according to Col. M'Masters ('Notes ou Jer- 

 don's Mammals,' p. 141), none are known to occur much south of 

 the Krishna river ; and Col. Douglas Hamilton, another good au- 

 thority, assures me that this agrees with his own experience. 

 Its eastern limit may be roughly drawn by a line from Dinapur to 

 Jabalpur, and thence due south till it intersects the east coast of 

 India*,. It is, so far as I know, wanting in the Ganges valley east 

 of Benares, in Eastern Behar, the Santal Parganahs, Chutia Nagpur, 

 Birbhum, &c, Chhatisgarh, the Mahanadi valley, Orissa, Bastar, 

 and the east coast generally north of the river Krishna f. The 

 Nilgai, Four-horned Antelope, and Indian Antelope range to the east 

 of this line, all being found in suitable localities nearly as far east as the 

 longitude of Calcutta ; and the last-named occurs in Lower Bengal, 

 and even in the western confines of Assam. In short, the Gazelle 

 inhabits the portions of India which I have elsewhere (J. A. S. B. 

 1870, vol. xxxix. pt. ii. p. 336) specified as the Panjab province, and 

 the Gangetic and Deccau subprovinces of the Indian province, with 

 the northern portion of the Madras subprovince ; whilst it is wanting 

 in the Bengal subprovince of the Indian province, in the provinces 

 of Malabar and Eastern Bengal, and probably in the southern part of 

 the Madras subprovince. 



Hitherto G. bennetti has not, so far as I am aware, been known 

 to range west of India ; but in the course of my recent journey 

 through Baluchistan I obtained a specimen of a Gazelle (a male) at 

 Bampur, about 450 miles west of the Indian frontier, which appears 

 to me undistinguishable from the Indian species. The coloration 



* I may be in error ns to the exact limit ; but I think the above is a close 

 approximation. 



t Amongst other animals the range of which in India is, so far as I know, 

 nearly coextensive with that of the Gazelle, are the two species of Sand-Grouse, 

 Pt erodes cxustus and Pt.faseiatns, and the Indian Bustard, Eupodotit edwardsh. 



