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The late Mr. Nsy Elias, a well-known explorer and traveller, gives this Gazell® 
an enormous distribution “Eastern Mongolia, all ov< r Western Mongolia from 
the northern bend of the Yellow River to the Altai mountains they were general- 
ly in large herds sometimes I should think four or five hundred or more to- 
gether.” Elias measured a buck as at the shoulder, he also took home a 
pair of horns to Blyth who called the animal “ A yutturom sub-genus Pro- 
capra.'" This head was got near the Gobi. Colonel Biddulph shot one on the 
road between Macallashi and Kashgar. Major Cumberland, Messrs. J. V. Phelps 
and E. L. Phelps also got their specimens in Turkestan. Blyth described the 
horns thus “resembles the Common Indian Gazelle except that the horns are 
longer and curve outwards, the tips being turned sharply inwards towards 
another.” 
Look at the sketch map of the country under discussion, and remember that 
from the Kuen-lun to the Altai is 1,000 miles in a straight line to the North- 
wards, and to the Caspian considerably more to the Westward, there is ample 
room for local differences in the Gazelles, or in other words suh-gutturosa'wh.vih. 
could conveniently be called sub-gutturosa and it is probably here that the 
Persian and Przewalskii’s Gazelles come in. 
No. 360.— THE PERSIAN GAZELLE. 
The only portion of British territory where this animal had been shot, as Sir 
Oliver St. John remarked, is near Pishin. He shot one here and thus brought 
it to notice, then others were obtained. 
This Gazelle is very rare in Baluchistan but not so towards Kandahar and 
in Afghanistan. 
That this sub-species “ extends through Turkestan to the Gobi ” is very 
doubtful for that is the home of the Djeran. 
There is considerable difl&culty in separating the varieties of the Central Asian 
Gazelles. In the future articles to be written for the Society it will probably 
be best to omit as being beyond our range. 
1. Przewalskii’s Gazelle. 
2. Persian species as belonging to Afghanistan and Persia, 
and deal only with 
1. The Tibetan GazeUe (Goa). 
2. The Gutturosa of Turkestan and Mongolia. 
3. The so called Goitered Gazelle from the Altai. 
In order to make the notes on these Gazelles as clear as possible Col. Harry 
Ward has been asked to have photographs taken of the horns at home. 
{To be continued.) 
