1873.] 



GAZELLES OF INDIA AND PERSIA. 



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I, some years since, obtained heads of the Gazelle from Kachh, 

 through Mr. A. B. Wynne of the Geological Survey, and I found 

 them identical in all respects with those from Central India. Re- 

 cently Dr. Stoliczka, in his " Notice of the Mammals and Birds 

 inhabiting Kachh," J. A. S. B. 1872, vol. xli. part ii. p. 229, has 

 also identified the Kachh Gazelle with G. bennetti. We may 

 therefore, I think, safely dismiss all idea of G. christii being any thing 

 distinct from G. bennetti. The specimen formerly in the United 

 Service Institution's Museum appears to have been presented to 

 some other museum when the small collection of zoological speci- 

 mens formerly belonging to the Institution was dispersed ; and I 

 have not been able to trace it. 



At the same time, the heads of Gazelles noticed by Jerdon with 

 the horns more bent forward may possibly have belonged to the 

 next species, which should in that case be looked for in the deserts 

 of the Indus plains and Rajputana. 



Head of Gazella fuscifrons $ . 



3. Gazella fuscifrons, sp. nov. 



G. cornibiisfcemincB subobsolete annnlatis, superne valde antice cur- 

 vatis ; dorso ochraceo ; /route et linea nigrescente a basi cornu 

 utriusque antice producta nigrescentibus ; regione nasali supe- 

 riore maculaque elongata utrinque ad genas subnigris, facie 

 reliqua isabellina; auribus extus isabellinis, intus albescentibus, 

 dimidio superior e fusco marginatis ; cetera similis G. bennetti. 



Hab. circum Jalk, ad oram meridionalem desertorum Drangianam 



