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family, born in the Society’s Menagerie in 1892 and 1894, are still living 
there. 
According to Herr Biichner, who has kindly supplied us with some 
valuable notes on the Asiatic Gazelles, this species is found in suitable 
localities all over the Transcaspian Provinces of Russia, and ranges north- 
wards to the steppes between the Caspian and the Aral, and eastwards to 
Lake Balkash. Far beyond this it extends across the southern portions of 
the great Desert of Gobi into the Chinese Provinces of Zaidam, Alaschan, 
and Ordos. 
On crossing the high range north of the Hindu Koosh into Kastern 
Turkestan a Gazelle very similar to the Persian Gazelle is met with. Six 
examples of this form were obtained by the naturalists of the Second 
Yarkand Mission in 1873-74, and were described by Dr. Blanford in his 
memoir on the Mammals of that Mission. Dr. Blanford says that it is 
perhaps a.question whether the Eastern Turkestan Gazelle should not be 
raised to the rank of a species. It differs principally from the typical 
form in the very much darker markings on the face and in the much smaller 
degree to which the horns diverge. ‘The size appears rather larger than that 
of the typical Persian form. But as there are some variations in the face- 
markings of Persian specimens, Dr. Blanford has considered it better to 
regard the Yarkand race as only a variety, which he has proposed to call 
Gazella subgutturosa yarkandensis. Of this subspecies an excellent coloured 
figure, drawn by Smit, is given in the above-named work. It represents both 
sexes, and shows the black markings on the face very distinctly. 
As pointed out by Dr. Blanford, it is nearly certain that the Gazelle to 
which Shaw refers, in his volume on ‘ High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashgar’ 
(page 221), as having been brought to him at Yarkand, and of which he 
says the Yarkand name is “ saikeek,” was of the present species—that is, of 
the lecal form Gazella subgutturosa yarkandensis. 
We have already mentioned the four living examples of this Gazelle 
brought to London by Dr. Aitchison and presented to the Zoological 
Society's Collection. These, however, were not the first specimens of this 
animal brought to England alive. As long ago as 1852 females of the 
present species were obtained from Bussorah on the Persian Gulf and 
presented to the Society by Alderman Finnis, and in 1869 examples from the 
same country were given to the collection by the late Mr. 'T. K. Lynch, F.Z.S. 
