. COLLECTION OF MAMMALS IN SHIRAZ, PERSIA. 579 



13. Gazella subgutturosa, Guldenstadt. 

 Persian Gazelle, 



1778. Antelope subgutturosa, Guldenstadt, Acta. Ac. Sci., Petrop, p. 251. 



5 1 ; Low hills between Khan-i-Zinian and Shiraz., alt. 5,600.' 



An adult female without horns, shot in June and is in the summer coat. 

 The mask has the forehead nearly white, a broad pale chestnut stripe runs 

 from the forehead down the centre of the face, ending in a small dark 

 brown patch above the nose, two almost white stripes run parallel on each 

 side of this central stripe and again two more pale chestnut stripes com- 

 mence in front of the eye and terminate to the side of the nose. There is 

 a male of this species mounted in the British Museum which has the face 

 all white. This is at once a most interesting and valuable addition to the 

 representatives of the Gazelle family in the National Collection, a group 

 in which the material is sadly deficient, more particularly in the case of 

 adult females on which many of the species of Gazelle are largely based. 



The Persian Gazelle is a comparatively long coated species, with horn- 

 less females, that inhabits the higher ranges of hills and plateaux. This 

 skull is considerably larger than any other with which comparison was 

 made. 



Hotson gives the measurement of the shoulder, taken in the flesh, as 

 26- 5 inches, which is one inch more than the female Urial he sent from the 

 same locality. 



The type locality is given by Lydekker as Persia, at elevations of 3,000' 

 to 7,000', and he includes Afghanistan in the range. Westward the species 

 would meet Gazella marica, Thomas, which reaches the valley of the lower 

 Karun River, a male and horned female having been obtained at Shushter 

 by Bailey and mentioned in the report on the mammals collected by the 

 Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



Since the proofs of the first paper have been returned from the printer 

 for correction, another small collection has arrived from Co . Hotson, 

 includincr a new vole. There has been just time to attach the description 

 of this vole by Mr. Oldfield Thomas and a short notice of the other species 

 to my original paper for publication together. ^ , tt i. 



rmon/those who contributed towards the Shiraz Collection Col Hotson 



writes that he received valued help f^-lI^^I^^SJ- ^^ ^^-jf '/'^.t, fa^^^^^^^ 

 Lieut B L Herdon and Major A. E. W. Lake, both of the U-''th 

 Q M O B. L. I.^Lieut.-Col. H. R. B. Gibson, I.M S., Capt K. Blandy, 

 SovJi; Persian Rifles and Officers of the 36th Indian Mom^tam^^^^^^ 

 The date of this supplementary collection is August loth to December the 

 16th, 1919. 



THE DETAILED LIST OF THE SPECIES IS AS FOLLOWS :- 



1 PiPISTEELLUS MIMU8 GLAUCILLUS, WrOUghtOU. 



S7; ? 11.' Ten from Bagh-i-Jaffarani, Shiraz, the rest from Shiraz. 

 Notes as in my paper. 



2. Pakaechinus macbacanthcs, Blanford. 

 Baluch Hedgehog. .. 



1876. Erinaeeus rnacracanthus, Blanford, East Persia, ii., p. -/• 



o 1. Bagh-i-Rezi, Shiraz. obtained by Blanford at 



Type locality Dizak, Baluchistan. It was ^l^y «^ J .. ^^^^y^ 



Karman. A plate of this Hedgehog is given '" E^^^^fJ j; ,4,k brown, 

 the base and the tip of the spines, as well as the undertur. 



