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The length of the skull in an old male is 8*5 inches, in an adult female 7"5. Ears be- 

 tween 5 and 6 inches long ; vertebra) of the tail 5 inches ; hairs at end 2. 



This gazelle is doubtless that mentioned in Dr. Stoliczka's posthumous note " on the Avi- 

 fauna of Kashghar in winter," 1 under the name of Antilope gntturosa, and said to be found 

 abundantly about Maralbashi. It is also, I have very little doubt, the animal to which Shaw 

 refers 2 as having been brought to him at Yarkand, and of which he says that the Yarkandi 

 name is " Saikeek." 



If I am correct in uniting the Yarkand gazelle to Gazella subgutturosa, the range of 

 that species is very great. It is found throughout the highlands of Persia, though not in the 

 neighbourhood of the Persian Gulf. It extends along the western coast of the Caspian to 

 near Baku and is found about Tabriz. It occurs at Kandahar, Bokhara, and throughout 

 Western Turkestan, 3 and, it now appears, east of the Pamir, so that it may be found close 

 to the range of O. gititurosa. 



56. Pantholops hodgsonii. PI. XVI. 



Antilope hodgsonii, Abel, Edin. Jour. Sc., 1827, p. 163. 



A. {Oryx) kemas, Ham. Smith, Griffith's Cuv. An. King 1 ., v, p. 328 (182 7). 

 Antilope chim, Less., Man. Mam., p. 371 (1827). 



Antilope hodgsonii, Hodgs., Gleanings in Science, i, p. 141? (1829). — lb. ii, p. 348, Pis. Ill, V, (1830). — 



P. Z.S., 1830, p. 52, &c— J.A.S.B., i, p. 59, PI. IV (1832).— Ib. iii, p. 134.— Hooker's Himalayan 



Journals, ii, pp. 132, 157, and woodcut, p. 158 (1854). 

 Pantholops hodgsonii, Hodgs., P.Z.S., 1834, p. 81. — J.A.S.B., xii, 1843, Plate issued with No. 135. — 



Wagner, Schreb. Saugth., Supp. iv, p. 420 (1841)— Ib. v, p. 402 (1856).— Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 



Ungulata Furcip., p. 53 (1852)— Cat. Rum. Mam. B. M., p. 33 (1872).— Adams, P.Z.S., 1858, p. 521. 

 Kemas hodgsonii, Gray, List Spec. Mam. B.M., p. 157 (1843). — Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1846, xviii, 



p. 231.— Blyth, Cat. Mam. As. Soc, p. 173 (1863).— Jerdon, Mam. Ind., p. 282 (1867).— W. Blanf., 



J.A.S.B., 1872, p. 39. 



1 $ , Kium, Ladak ; 2 $, no label. 



The Chiru appears to have been described in the same year by Abel, Hamilton Smith, 

 and Lesson. I have only access to the two last-mentioned. This species was subsequently 

 well and thoroughly described by Hodgson from the living animal, and the same naturalist 

 in 1834 proposed a new genus Pantholops from " the vulgar old name for the unicorn." 



In 1843 Gray called this antelope Kemas Iiodgsouii, and the generic name was adopted 

 by Blyth in the Catalogue of Mammals in the museum of the Asiatic Society, and has been 

 generally used in India, although Gray in later catalogues corrected his former mistake. 



The genus Kemas was originally proposed by Ogilby in 1836, the type being 4 the Goral 

 (Antilope goral, Hardwicke). The generic name has been wrongly applied to the Chiru by 

 Gray and Blyth, and again misapplied by Gray to the wild goat of the Nilgiris (Kemitragus 

 hylocrius, Ogilby sp.), neither of which is congeneric with the Goral. Ogilby certainly 



1 Stray Feathers, 1874, ii, p. 216. 



2 High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashghar, p. 221. 



3 See P. Z. S., 1873, pp. 313, 546. Severtzoff, Turk. Jev., p. 62. 



4 P. Z. S., 1836, p. 138. 



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