SYNOPSIS OF THE 



dark streak on the spine, beneath white ; in winter, although 

 hoary, small tufts on knees ; the female hornless. In the 

 males there are sometimes three horns. 



KoXos", Strabo. Colus of Gesner and Johnston. A. Saiga, 

 Pallas and Auctor. Sulok and Suhah of the Poles. Mar- 

 gatsch (the male), Saiga (the female), in Russian. Akoin 

 of the Turks. 



Icon. Pallas. Nobis. 



Habitat. South-eastern Poland, shores of the Danube, 

 Black Sea, to the Ural and Caspian. 



830. 23. A.Gutturosa (the Dseren.) Adult male about 

 two feet six inches at the shoulder ; four feet eight inches 

 in length ; head thick, short ; horns about nine inches long, 

 annulated to near the tips, reclining backwards, and wavy- 

 points turned inwards ; colour black or dark yellow ; nose 

 blunt, bristly ; larynx swelled externally, and surrounded 

 with long bristly hairs ; glandulous bag on the abdomen 

 near the prepuce ; tufts on knees predominant ; colour in 

 summer yelio wish-gray above, and white beneath ; in winter 

 almost white ; female smaller ; no protruded larynx or 

 pouch on the belly. 



Ant. Gutturosa, Pallas and Auctor. Le Dseren, F. Cuv. 

 Desmar. Hoang Yang or Yellow Goat of the Chinese. 



Icon. Pallas. Nobis. 



Habitat. The great desert of Gobi in Central Asia, and 

 Western China. 



831. 24. A. Cervicapra. (the Common Antilope.) The 

 adult male about two feet six inches at the shoulders, and 

 four feet two from nose to tail ; horns black, round, annu- 

 lated, twelve to twenty-two rings, spiral, or with three 

 flexures, and from twenty to twenty-four inches long ; the 

 head long, nose blunt, with incipient muzzle, or naked 

 space between the nostrils ; general colour pale fulvous 



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