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VII. GAZELLA FUSCIFRONS. 



Gazella fuscifrons, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 317, Eastern 



Persia, vol. ii, p. 92, 1876 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 545 ; 



Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 465, 1884 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. 



Mamm. Ind. Mua. pt. ii, p. 160, 1891 ; Lydekker, Nature, vol. 



Ixxjdii, p. 202, 1910 ; Ward's Records of Big Game, ed. 7, p. 245, 



1914. 

 Gazella bennetti, Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 529, 1891 ; 



Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 120, 1898 ; 



nee Sykes. 

 Gazella yarkandensis kennioni, Lydekker, Field, vol. cxi, p. 499, 1908. 

 Gazella hayi, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1911, p. 961. 



It was the result of an unfortunate accident, namely the 

 transposition of the registration labels of two gazelles 

 received simultaneously at the British Museum, that a 

 specimen of this gazelle was described as a new African 

 species under the name <?. hayi. 



Typical locality Jalk, on the fringe of the Sistan (Seistan) 

 Desert, Eastern Persia. 



Type (the female head figured by Blanford) in Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



Horns present in both sexes, and males without a 

 " goitre " (as in all the following species). Apparently 

 somewhat smaller than seistanica (shoulder-height probably 

 about 28 inches), from which it is distinguished, in addition 

 to the above characters, by the absence of marked inturning 

 of the horns, the smaller size of the white area on the 

 buttocks, and the light rufous fawn forehead and middle line 

 of face, with only the lips and the extremity of the muzzle 

 whitish; the flank and pygal bands being slightly darker 

 than the general body-colour. 



This species apparently inhabits elevations not exceeding 

 3000 feet ; its distributional area including Sistan (Seistan) 

 and probably part of Baluchistan. 



8. 3. 12. 1. Head, mounted. Kain, Eastern Persia. Type 

 of G. yarkandensis kennioni. 



Presented by Lieut.-Col. R. L. Kennion, 1908. 

 10. 1. 22. 1. Skin, mounted, subadult, male (fig. 11). 

 Sistan, Eastern Persia. Type of G. hayi. Same donor, 1910. 

 10. 12. 13. 3. Skull, with horns, immature. Sistan. 



Presented hy Caft. 0. T. Daukes, 1910. 

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