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tame burhel were very fond of playing with my dogs and even 

 with men. 



GAZELLE PICTIGAUDATA. Tibetan Gazelle. Tib.— " Qoa." 



Gazelle are still fairly plentiful on the road to Gyantse, being 

 found from the hills south of Phari up to the neighbourhood of 

 Gyantse ; on the road itself they are much scarcer and wilder than 

 they used to be. The horns of those entered in the game list 

 measured between 10^ ins. and 14 ins.; only one head of the last 

 measurement was shot (by Captain Kennedy) though 13^ins. 

 heads were not uncommon. 



The following are the measurements of two gazelles : — 



Nose to tip of tail 38" 37f" 



Height at shoulder 24§" 22" 



Length of horn 12" llf" 



In Western Tibet they are much wilder and more difficult to 

 approach than in the country to the north of Sikkim. On one 

 occasion, when camped near Kamba Jong I counted 117 in sight 

 from my tent. I found the young difficult to rear in captivity. 

 A photograph of one appeared at p. 121 of Vol. XIX of our 

 Journal. A greyhound of mine once caught a full grown buck. 



GEBVIS AFFINIS. The Shou. Tib.—" Sha." 



These stags are found in the Chumbi Valley, their lowest eleva- 

 tion being about 9,000 feet. They are very scarce, a few only 

 crossing the ridge which forms the boundary between Chumbi and 

 Bhutan. I have seen them grazing on Lingmotang Plain in May, 

 when the stags had no horns, and in the winter they are to be 

 found in the dense pine forests, on the eastern side of the Chumbi 

 Valley ; but about December the forest is disturbed by the vil- 

 lagers, who at this time are collecting their winter's supply of fuel, 

 and the stags appear, for the most part, to return eastwards to 

 Bhutan. They rarely cross to the western bank of the Ammo Chu 

 and this river may be said to be the limit of their habitat on the 

 west. 



I saw in captivity at Shigatse a stag which belonged to the 

 Tashilama, and which I was informed had been obtained from the 

 Bramaputra Valley, east of Lhasa ; but I am unable to say to what 

 species it belonged. I found that the roofs of many houses in 



