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and divergent outwards, the divergence increasing above; tips abruptly 
hooked inwards and slightly upwards, at a sharper angle with the rest of the 
horn than a right angle. 
Female. Similar to the male, but without horns. 
Hab. Mongolia; Koko Nor, northern part of Kan-su, and Ordos. 
Przewalski’s Gazelle, which has been most appropriately named after the 
famous explorer who discovered it, was first described and figured by 
Przewalski himself in 1876, but erroneously confounded with the allied form 
G. gutturosa. Twelve years later, it appears, Przewalski discovered his error, 
and proposed to rename the animal Antilope cuviert. But this specific term 
properly belongs to another species which had been described by Ogilby 
many years previously. Under these circumstances Dr. Biichner in his 
account of the Mammals of the Kan-su Expedition of Messrs. Potanin and 
Beresowski, proposed that this Gazelle should in future be known as Gazella 
przewalskii—Przewalski’s Gazelle. 
In the English translation of Przewalski’s ‘ Mongolia’ the habits of this 
species are described as follows :— 
“These antelopes are gregarious, their herds sometimes numbering several hundreds 
or even thousands in those parts where food is plentiful, but they are most frequently 
seen in smaller numbers of from fifteen to thirty or forty head. Although they avoid 
the neighbourhood of man, they always select the best pasturages of the desert, and, like 
the Mongols, migrate from place to place in search of food, sometimes travelling great 
distances, especially in summer, when the drought drives them to the rich pasture-lands 
of Northern Mongolia, and as far as the confines of Trans-Baikalia. The deep snows of 
winter often compel them to travel several hundred miles in search of places almost or 
entirely free from snow. These animals belong exclusively to the plains, and carefully 
avoid the hilly country, but sometimes appear in the undulating parts of the steppe, 
particularly in spring, attracted by the young grass, which shoots up under the influence 
of the sun’s warmth. They shun thickets and high grass, excepting at the time of 
parturition, which is in May, when the doe seeks the covert to conceal her new-born 
offspring. But a few days after their birth the fawns follow their mothers about every- 
where, and soon rival the fleet-footedness of their sires. They very seldom utter any 
sound, though the males occasionally give a short loud bleat. Nature has endowed 
them with excellent sight, hearmg, and smell; their swiftness is marvellous and their 
intelligence well developed, qualities which prevent their falling so easy a prey as they 
otherwise would to their enemies—man and the wolf. 
«The Mongols, armed with their poor matchlocks, hunt the dzerens in the following 
way. In those parts of the steppe where these antelopes abound they dig small pits at 
