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90. 4. 20. 9. Skin, mounted, in summer coat. Saiar 

 Mountains. Type. 



Presented ly St. George Littledale, Esc[., 1890. 

 90. 4. 20. 10. Skin. Same locality. Same history. 

 90. 4. 20. ] 1. Skin and skeleton, female. Same locality. 



Same history. 

 90. 4. 20. 12. Skin, immature. Same locality. 



Same history. 



12. 4. 1. 180. Skin. Southern Zungaria ; collected by 



Douglas Carruthers, Esq. Purchased, 1912. 



12. 4. 1. 183. Skull and skin, immature female. Same 



locality. Same history. 



V. GAZELLA YAEKANDENSIS. 



Gazella gutturosa, Forsyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 324, neo 

 Pallas. 



Gazella subgutturosa yarkandensis, Blanford, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, vol. xliv, pt. 2, p. 112, 1879, Zool. 'Ind Yarkand Mission, 

 Mamm. p. 88, pi. xv, 1879, Sclater and Thomas, Booh of 

 Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 94, 1898 ; Pousa/rgues, Mem. Soc. Zool. 

 France, vol. xi, p. 187, 1898 ; Lydekker, Great and Small Game 

 of India, etc. p. 180, 1900, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 196, 

 1907. 



Gazella yarcandensis, Lydekker, Nature, vol. Ixxxiii, p. 202, 1910, 

 Cat. Rume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 31, 1913 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, ed. 6, p. 247, 1910, ed. 7, p. 243, 1914. 



Saikik, or KiK ; Yaekand Gazelle. 



Typical locality plains of Yarkand, Chinese Turkestan. 



The specimen figured by Blanford, which cannot be 

 definitely identified, must be regarded as the type. Eesembles 

 suhgutturosa in the absence of horns in the females and the 

 "goitre" in the throat of the males, but differs by its 

 superior size — shoulder-height about 29 inches — well- 

 developed face-markings, larger ears, and more sublyrate 

 horns, which have comparatively few (about 14) ridges ; the 

 white area on the buttocks is, moreover, somewhat larger, 

 extending upwards on each side of the root of the tail. 

 G-eneral colour light rufous brown, or dark fawn ; median 

 dark face-stripe running right up forehead and splitting to 

 terminate at base of each horn ; between the light stripes, 

 with the exception of a narrow streak, the greater part of 



