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elongated, so as to form a sort of lateral tuft, which extends backwards 
under the eyes. Ears short, narrow, pointed, well haired, coloured like the 
body. Rump witha prominent white patch surrounding the base of the tail. 
Tail quite short, projecting little beyond the fur, its end black or dark fawn. 
Limbs white or very pale fawn ; no knee-tufts. 
“In the summer the coat is short and of a slaty grey colour” (Brooke). 
Skull rather broad in proportion to its length. Anteorbital fosse practi- 
cally obsolete. Nasals broad behind, evenly tapering forwards. Basal length 
6-4 inches, greatest breadth 3°75, muzzle to orbit 4:0. 
Horns slender, of median length, much compressed laterally, very closely 
ringed. With the exception of their tips (2-3 inches), after starting 
vertically, they curve evenly and strongly backwards, diverging laterally but 
little. ‘Tips gently curved upwards and slightly inwards, reapproaching each 
other above to a certain extent. 
Female. Similar to the male but without horns. 
Hab. Plateau of Tibet and adjoining districts of Central Asia. 
Like many other Himalayan and Tibetan animals this Antelope first became 
known to science from the researches of the great Indian naturalist and 
antiquarian, Bryan Houghton Hodgson, British Resident at the capital of 
Nepal. Hodgson described it in 1846, in the ‘ Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal, as Procapra picticaudata, and gave a very recognizable figure to 
accompany his letterpress. He wrote of it as follows :— 
“The exceedingly graceful little animal, which is the subject of our present descrip- 
tion, is called by the Tibetans Rég6a, or G6a simply, and they allege that it is found 
generally throughout the plains of middle and eastern Tibet. But those plains, it must 
be remembered, are, for the most part, broken by deep ravines or low bare hills, and it 
is in such situations, more especially, that the G6a dwells, either solitarily or in pairs, 
or at most in small families, never in large flocks. The species is said to breed but once 
a year, and to produce ordinarily but one young one at birth, rarely two; and it is added 
that it browses rather than grazes, preferring aromatic sbrubs and shoots to grass, of 
which latter, indeed, its habitat is nearly void. I have not heard that the G6a is ever 
tamed, but it is killed for the sake of its flesh, which is esteemed excellent, and is free 
fiom all caprine odour, even in the mature males.” 
Hodgson also entered into the structural peculiarities of this Antelope, 
which he described at full length. It is quite evident that, as pointed out by 
him, the present Gazelle, as also the two allied species (G. przewalskit and 
