1903.] 



ON A XEW FORM OP GRAXT S GAZELLE. 



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Zool. See. supra, p. 2, there is a figure of a skvill of a Muntjac 

 showing small supernvimeraiy horns on the pedicle, and, although 

 the horns of the Roebuck vary more than do other Cervine horns, 

 examples of four Jaorns are I'are. 



Dr. A. S. Woodward, F.R.S., exhibited photographs by 

 Dr. Otto Herz, illustrating the discovery and exhumation of a 

 Mammoth in the Government of Jakutsk, Siberia. He also made 

 remarks on the specimen, which has now been mounted in the 

 Zoological Museum at St. Petersburg under the direction of 

 Dr. Salensky. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited some remarkable Gazelle 

 skulls and horns from German East Africa, which had been con- 

 tributed to the jSTational Museum by Messrs. F. Russell Roberts 

 and C. E. Blaine. 



The specimens belonged to the Gazella granti type, but their 

 horns were each completely twisted round inwards, as shown in 

 the figures (text-figs. 10, 11), so that the tips pointed backwards 



Text-fia- 



Skull asid lionis of Gazella granti rohertsi. (Front view.) 



and outwards and Avere very far apart. The twisting was spread 

 over the whole length of the horn, and being in the direction 

 characteristic of domestic as opposed to wild Bovidse, gave to the 

 animals a remarkably goat-like appearance. In the female the 

 horns were also twisted, although not so strongly as in the male. 

 Writing from Mwansa, Geiman East Africa, Mr. Roberts 



