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This animal, or a closely allied species, was occasionally seen along our whole march 

 from Quetta to Khusan, hut no specimens were procured. From a shrine at Gal-i-cha, in 

 Baluchistan, on the 13th October, 1884, I got some horns and feet, which Mr. Thomas 

 thinks belong to this species, as well as the head of a Doe that Major Durand shot in 

 the Badghis, about the 30th November, 1884. The markings on this head were very 

 pale originally. 



In the low hills and great gravel plains of the valley of the Hari-rud I have 

 seen them everywhere, but I never got within shooting distance of them. They 

 are very cautious and wary, usually in groups of three or four, feeding at short distances 

 from each other ; on being alarmed they close together and gallop off; as one alarmed 

 herd was seen to move off, others in their vicinity did the same. On the 30th November, 

 between Aftao and Tut-i-chi, owing to the immense line of our camp, and at some little 

 distance that of the Afghan cavalry, the country was accidentally driven. The consequence 

 was that large numbers of the small herds became united, and thus in place of seeing 

 them in fours or fives, several members of the Mission told me that they had seen 

 herds numbering hundreds of individuals flying between the two moving camps. About 

 the 2nd June, 1885, at Chinkilok, to the north-west of Herat, some 20 miles between the 

 Khotal-sangi Pass and Herat, I picked up a young female Gazelle of this species ; it was 

 a day old ; at Turbat-i-haidri, Khorasan, I got a pair (male and female) of the same 

 age as my first one, and at Meshed the Nawab gave me another young male. I brought 

 these four alive to England ; they are now in the Zoological Gardens in London, and 

 look well and healthy ; the males have fine horns. — J. E. T. A.] 



[Cervtjs maral, Ogilby * . 

 Blanford, torn. cit. p. 95. 



At a shrine between Kara-kainta and Kushk, on the 2nd December, 1884, I saw a 

 magnificent pair of very old horns, which in all probability were those of this species of 

 Stag, which had been brought as a votive offering many years ago, when the geographical 

 area of this animal may have extended much further east than it now does. — J. E. T. A.J 



* Dr. Scully refers an antler from the banks of the Oxus, near Balkh. to Cerviis cashmirianus. Falc. 



