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side, and after a détour, found myself on the hill-side straight above them. I watched 
them for some time as they fed along the foot of the hill: at last they approached a 
deep but narrow ravine which ran down the hill; I entered this, which afforded me 
capital cover, and on reaching the plain and looking over the bank, I saw the Goas 
quietly feeding within about a hundred yards. Resting my rifle on the bank, I fired 
very steadily at the best buck, but to my surprise missed with both barrels, owing to 
over-estimating the distance. Dropping behind the bank, I reloaded, and on again 
looking over was astonished to see the Goas still feeding in the same place. I was more 
successful this time, wounding one with the first barrel, and killing another with -the 
second. Even now the Goas did not move far, and I had time to fire two more bullets, 
which, however, missed. Meanwhile I had sent a man to bring my dog, and on his 
arrival I slipped him at the Goas, but the wounded one seemed to recover completely, 
and it soon distanced the greyhound. The one I had killed had a very beautiful pair of 
horns.”’ 
Besides the experiences of the travellers and sportsmen from the Indian 
side, the only published record concerning the Tibetan Gazelle, so far as we 
know, is that of the great Russian explorer Przewalski, who, after treating of 
the ‘“Orongo” of Northern Tibet (Pantholops hodgsoni), mentions the present 
species as being found in the same district, and there known to the Mongols as 
** Ata-dzeren,” or Little Antelope *. Przewalski, who met with this animal 
near the headwaters of the Tatong-gol, in Northern Tibet, and, as he believes, 
also in the highlands of Kan-su in China, describes its habits as follows :— 
“Like the Orongo it frequents elevated plains, preferring, however, the valleys in the 
mountains where water is abundant. Yetits habits are very different from the Orongo’s, 
and it is without exception the most graceful and the swiftest of the antelopes of 
Mongolia and Northern Tibet. It generally moves in small herds of from five to seven 
(seldom as many as twenty), though solitary males are often seen. Itis extremely wary, 
especially in those districts where it has learnt to fear man; on the banks of the 
Muruiussu it is a little less timid. Its swiftness is amazing; it bounds along like an 
india-rubber ball, and when startled seems absolutely to fly. During their breeding- 
season, which begins towards the close of December and lasts a month, the males chase 
one another from their herds, but we never saw them fighting like the Orongo, nor did 
we ever hear them utter any sound other than a snort on seeing a man; and the does 
when startled gave a short loud cry. They scrape themselves trenches a foot deep, in 
which they lie at night (and probably during the day), and in these we found heaps of 
their droppings. 
‘«This little antelope is more difficult to shoot than the Orongo, besides being much 
scarcer and extremely tenacious of life. Its ashy-grey colour, exactly resembling the 
* Przewalski’s ‘ Mongolia,’ Morgan’s Translation, ii. pp. 208 et seqq. 
