152 Rough Notes on the Zoology of Candahar. [No. 170. 



winter time they travel further south, and skirt the sandy desert which 

 stretches along from the Sooliman ranges into Persia. 46 



In the young males, the horns nearly touch at the apex in consequence 

 of their inward turn, but they afterwards separate and diverge as the 

 animal advances to maturity. 



As regards the female, however, if mine be in reality the Persian 

 Gazelle, there is still greater difference between the Afghan species and 

 the published description in the English edition of Cuvier's ' Regne 

 Animal ;' for it is there stated, that " the females have smaller horns, 

 and are destitute of lachrymary sinus and of tufts on the knees ;" 

 In the Afghan Gazelle, on the contrary, the female is hornless ; she has 

 a lachrymary sinus as well as the male, and she has tufts at the knee, 

 although they are perhaps smaller than in the male. In all other res- 

 pects of marking, colour, &c. the description of Cuvier corresponds with 

 my specimens, which I can regard as none other than G. subgutturosa, 

 and 1 conclude that some mistake must have led to the erroneous 

 account in the English ■ Regne Animal.' I am the more inclined to 

 believe this, since I find an equally glaring error regarding the " Goral" 

 (Kemas goral), it being stated that the female is hornless and possessed 

 of only two mammce, whereas she has horns (generally), and four mamma ! 

 The Afghans have a mode of catching or destroying these animals 

 when they repair to a river to drink ; a net is erected along the bank of 

 the stream, and a single opening is left for the antelope to enter at ; 

 after satisfying their thirst the animals proceed to wander along the 

 stream, and the ambushed hunters springing up and securing the open- 

 ing or door way of the net, capture or kill the whole batch. The car- 

 case was often brought into the market at Candahar and sold. 



No. 45. Ovis Vignei. V Koh-i-doomba" of the Afghans — 0. cy- 

 cloceros, Hutton. 



When I named this species, I was not aware that it had passed 

 through abler hands, but of course my trivial name must give place 

 to yours. I have nothing to add to my former account in the ' Calcutta 



46. M. Menetries remarks, that this animal " is very common in winter on the vast 

 Steppes which border the Caspian sea, from Bakou to Koo; living in small troops, 

 which once a hundred and fifty paces from the hunter, remain tranquil and fearless. 

 It is easily tamed, so that it may be suffered to run at large without danger of losing 

 it." — Cur. As. Soc. 



