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three of upper premolars in the adult of the existing species, 

 but apparently three lower pairs in the extinct European 

 Pleistocene S. prisca* 



The range of the single living species of the subfamily 

 during the historic period included the steppes of south- 

 eastern Europe and north-western Asia, from those between 

 the Volga and Ural through the government of Samara, and 

 thence eastward over the Kirghiz Steppes and the steppe- 

 country of western Siberia ; to the south it extended into 

 Eussian Turkestan, Zungaria, and the western side of the 

 Gobi. During the Pleistocene the group ranged into western 

 Europe. 



Genus SAIGA. 



Saiga, Oray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. xxvi, 1843 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Boole of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 29, 1897; PococJc, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 898. 



Colus, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 419, 1844. 



Characters and range those of the subfamily. The genus 

 is regarded by Pocock as exhibiting distinct signs of afSnity 

 with the Cwprince, especially in the structure of the feet. 



SAIGA TATAEICA. 



Capra tatarica,t Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i, p. 97, 1766 ; Miiller, 

 Natursyst. vol. i, p. 417, 1773. 



Antilope saiga, Pallas, Misc. Zool. p. 6, 1766, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii, 

 pp. 14 and 21, 1777, Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. vol. i, p. 252, 1811 ; 

 Zimmermann, Geogr. Geschichie, vol. ii, p. 121, 1780; Schreher, 

 Sdugthiere, pi. cclxxvi, 1782 ; Boddaert, Elenchus Anim. p. 143, 

 • 1785 ; Gmelin, Limi.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 185, 1788 ; Kerr, 

 Linn.'s Anim. Kingdom, p. 309, 1792 ; Donndorff, Zool. Beytrdge, 

 vol. i, p. 626, 1792 ; LinTc, Beytrdge Naturgesch. vol. ii, p. 99, 

 1795; Cuvier, Tall. Mem. Hist. Nat. p. 163, 1798, Diet. Sci. 

 Nat. vol. ii, p. 229, 1894, Begne Anim. vol. i, p. 261, 1817 ; Bech- 

 stein, Uehersicht vierfiiss. Thiere, vol. ii, p. 645, 1800 ; Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 339, 1801 ; Turton, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. 

 vol. i, p. 112, 1802 ; Desma/rest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat, vol. xxiv, 

 Table, p. 33, 1804, ed. 2, vol. ii, p. 181, 1816, Mammalogie, vol. ii, 

 p. 452, 1822 ; Tiedemann, Zool. vol. i, p. 409, 1808 ; G. Fischer, 

 Zoognosia, vol. iii, p. 428, 1814 ; Afzelius, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal. 

 vol. vii, p. 220, 1815 ; Goldfuss, Schreber's Sdugthiere, vol. v, 



* Nehring, Neues Jarhb. Min. Geol. u. Pal. vol. ii, p. 181, 1891. 

 ■f The name is very generally misspelt tartarica, in the same 

 manner as Tatary is misspelt Tartary. 



