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side. On the west the Indian Gazelle extends far along the Mekran coast to 
the Persian Gulf, and there meets the Arabian Gazelle, of which it is 
undoubtedly a very close ally, although the latter is always much darker on 
the back. 
Although the Indian Gazelle, or “ Ravine-Deer,” as it is usually termed by 
Europeans, was doubtless known to the sportsmen of British India long ago, 
it was not made known to science until 1831, when Col. Sykes, one of the 
earliest pioneers in Indian natural history, described it in a communication 
made to the Zoological Society of London. Sykes, in his paper on the 
Mammals of the Deccan read before the Society in July of that year, proposed 
to name it Antilope bennetti, after the late Edward Turner Bennett, a well- 
known naturalist, who was at that time Vice-Secretary of the Society. Sykes 
met with this Antelope on the rocky hills of the Deccan “in groups rarely 
exceeding three or four in number, and very frequently solitary.” In 1849, 
Fraser published a figure of this species in his ‘ Zoologia Typica,’ taken from 
one of Sykes’s male specimens in the British Museum, which is still in the 
National Collection, although not in the exhibition gallery. In 1844, in his 
description of the mammals of Jacquemont’s ‘ Voyage dans l’Inde,’ Isidore 
Geoffr. St.-Hilaire described and figured an Antilope hazenna, which he at that 
time considered to be different from the present animal. Butthere can be no 
doubt that Jacquemont’s specimens, which were obtained at Malwa in Central 
India, are the same as Grazella bennetti, and Sykes’s term being the oldest 
has been universally employed as the designation of this species. As we 
shall presently show, Gazella christii of Gray, from Sind, and Gazella 
fuscifrons of Blanford, from Baluchistan, are names which have been based 
on what are merely slightly divergent forms of Gazella bennetti. 
From the researches of Elliot, Jerdon, Blyth, Blanford, and other authorities 
on the mammals of British India, we are now well acquainted with the 
range cf this Gazelle in the peninsula and adjoining lands to the west. 
Dr. Blanford describes it as extending throughout the plains and low hills of 
North-western and Central India, and thence through Baluchistan to the 
eastern shore of the Persian Gulf. In the Indian peninsula, he continues, 
the Indian Gazelle ranges in suitable localities throughout the Punjab, Sind, 
Rajputana, the N.W. Provinces, and the whole of the Bombay Presidency 
with the exception of the Western Ghats and Konkan; it also occurs in 
Central India as far east as Palamow and Western Sargiya, and in the 
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