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to allow the shooter to choose out his victim more readily. The Tunguts of the Steppes 
are especially skilled in finding and pursuing the Antelopes, and even the young 
maidens of these tribes take part in the chase. At one of the border-posts there was a 
celebrated hunter who in many winters had obtained as many as 200 of these Antelopes, 
which at this season go about in large herds. They are occasionally so crowded 
together, as this hunter assured me, that he had sometimes killed three and even four 
individuals with one bullet. 
“ Tn what large numbers this Antelope sometimes assembles I was able to convince 
myself in October 1856, when I was on the other side of the Argunj in Mongolian 
territory, for their tracks and their droppings were so numerous that it appeared as if 
some thousands of sheep had gone by. 
«The winter pelts of this Antelope make very warm and durable coats (locally 
called dachas), which are worn with the hair outside: the hair is not so brittle as 
that of the Roe. They are valued at about one and a half roubles apiece. The flesh 
of this Antelope is very palatable and the old bucks in the autumn become extra- 
ordinarily fat.” 
In 1867 Dr. Lockhart brought home with him from Pekin two skulls of 
Fig. 56. 
. Skull and horns of the Mongolian Gazelle. 
(P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 245.) 
this Antelope and presented them to the British Museum. Dr. Gray read 
some notes on them at a meeting of the Zoolcgical Society of London in 
