90 
SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
included tlie Nilgiri goat in his genus Eemas, 1 2 hut this was in a subsequent paper to that in 
which he gave the characters of the genus and named the Goral as the type. 
Hodgson’s antelope has been variously classed by different authors, but there can he but 
little doubt that Hodgson was right in considering it closely allied to the Gazelles. The form 
of the feet with their very pointed hoofs strongly supports this view. 
The following detailed measurements of a female are from Stoliczka’s notes:— 
Length from nose to between ears 
,, from between ears to top of shoulder 
„ „ top of shoulder to base of tail 
,, of tail without tuft 
„ „ with tuft 
Total length from nose to tip of tail 
Lensrth of ear from front base 
„ ,, orifice to tip 
„ „ hind base . 
Median breadth of ear 
Girth round the breast 
Height at shoulder 
Length of fore-leg 
„ ,, from knee 
„ hind-leg „ 
„ „ from hock to toe 
Height at the hind-feet . 
From nose to eye 
„ eye to base of ear 
Height of nose with lower lip 
Inches. 
10 
14 
26 
4-5 
7 
53 
5*8 
4-3 
4- 8 
2-5 
35 
27-5 (?37*5) 
18 
10- 4 
24 
11- 5 
31 
5- 8 
2- 5 
3- 2 
Pantholops hodgsoni appears to he common throughout Tibet from the neighbourhood 
of Lhassa to Ladak. It is found in the Kuenlun range, hut has not been met with 
further to the north-west or west. It was not found by Pere David in Eastern Tibet or in 
Mongolia. 
In Mr. Shaw’s work, 3 the head of this antelope is figured by mistake as that of the 
“ Keek Gazella suhgutturosa, var. The mistake was made by the publisher of the book 
in Mr. Shaw’s absence. 3 
Family —CEB VII) sE, 
57 . Cervus eustephanus. 
W. Blanf., P. Z. S., 1875, p. 637. 
? Cervus maral (C. canadensis var .), Severtzoff, Turk. Jev., pp. 62, 103.—Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist,, Ser. 4, 
xviii, p. 377.—Prejevalski, Pet. Mitt., Erg. Hft., No. 53, p. 5.—From Kulja, &c., p. 46. 
? C. maral , var. asiatica , b. songarica, Severt., Turk. Jev., p. 109; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., t. e., p. 386. 
Cervus cornibus magnis sublcevigatis , valde curvatis, superne subplanulatis, subpalma- 
tisque , apices versus convergentibus atque retro productis , ramos ad septem gerentibus } duobus 
1 P. Z. S., 1837, p. 81. 
2 High Tartary, &c., pp. 168, 169. 
3 I am indebted to Captain Trotter and Captain Biddulph for this information. 
