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Mus. As. Soc. p. 173 (1863) ; Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 39 (1872); id. Hand-l. 
Rum. B. M. p. 108 (1873). 
Tragopsis bennettii, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. p. 157 (1869). 
Antilope arabica, Elliot, Madr. Journ. x. p. 223 (1839) (Mahratta Country). 
Gazella christii, Gray, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 452 (1842); Hutton, J. A. S. B. xv. 
p. 151 (1846). 
Antilope hazenna, I. Geoffr. St.-Hil. Voy. Jacq., Mamm. p. 74, Atl. pl. vi. (1844); Schinz 
Mon. Ant. pl. xxi. a (1848) ; Wagn. Schr. Saug. Supp. v. p. 406 (1855). 
Gazella hazenna, Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 193 (1853). 
Tragopsis hazenna, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. p. 157 (1869). 
Gazella fuscifrons, Blanf. P. Z.S. 1873, p. 317 (fig., head 9) (Jalk, Persia) ; Brooke, 
P.Z.S. 1878, p. 545; Blanf. E. Persia, ii. p. 92 (1876) ; Sterndale, Mamm. Ind. 
p. 465 (1884) ; W. Scl. Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. i. p. 160 (1891). 
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Vernacutar Names :—Chinkdra, Chikdra, Kal-punch in Hindustani; Phaskela in 
N.W. Provinces; Ask or Ast and Ahu in Baluchistan; Khazm in Brahmi ; 
Kalsipi in Mahratta; Tiska, Buddri, or Muddri in Canarese; Sank-hilé in 
Mysore; Porsya g, Chari 2 in Baori; Buruduyinka in Telugu; Ravine-Deer 
of many Anglo-Indians. 
Size medium; height at withers 24 to 25 inches. General colour dull 
fawn. Facial markings distinct, the darker ones rufous-fawn ; a black spot 
on the top of the nose. Ears of medium length, fawn-coloured behind. 
Dark lateral and pygal bands brownish fawn, scarcely darker than the back ; 
light lateral bands scarcely perceptible; knee-brushes present. 
Skull with deep anteorbital fosse :—Basal length 7:2 inches, greatest 
breadth 3°45, muzzle to orbit 4. 
Horns thick, heavily ribbed, close together, diverging little but evenly, 
gently curved backwards below and forwards at their tips. 
Female. Similar to the male, but horns straight, simple, about two-thirds 
the length of those of the male. 
Hab. Indian Peninsula, extending westwards through Baluchistan to the 
Persian Gulf. 
Like the Lion and the Cheetah this Gazelle belongs to an Ethiopian type 
of mammals, and was originally, no doubt, an intruder into India from the 
west. But, as will be seen when we come to describe its range, it has now 
spread itself over the greater part of the peninsula except on the eastern 
