The book of antelopes . ance, and it is only by its conspicuous whiterump, and its snort, that you are able to discover its presence. There are many specimens of this Antelope in the British Museumpresented by Mr. Hodgson, amongst which is the type of the species. Thereare also in the National Collection skulls from Kumaon and other localitiespresented by Mr. A. O. Hume, ; from the Changchenmo Valley, Ladak,presented by Mr. R. Lydekker; and from the confines of Tibet north ofSikim, collected by Mandelli and presented by Dr. W. T. Blanford, There is also a good series of specimens of
The book of antelopes . ance, and it is only by its conspicuous whiterump, and its snort, that you are able to discover its presence. There are many specimens of this Antelope in the British Museumpresented by Mr. Hodgson, amongst which is the type of the species. Thereare also in the National Collection skulls from Kumaon and other localitiespresented by Mr. A. O. Hume, ; from the Changchenmo Valley, Ladak,presented by Mr. R. Lydekker; and from the confines of Tibet north ofSikim, collected by Mandelli and presented by Dr. W. T. Blanford, There is also a good series of specimens of this Gazelle in the Museum ofthe Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, obtained by the Eussian explorersin Northern Tibet and in the mountains of Nan-shan. Our figure (Plate L1I.), which has been put on the stone by Mr. Smitfroma sketch prepared for Sir Victor Brooke by Mr. Wolf, represents a male andtwo females of this species, probably the specimens in the British Museum. January, 1898. THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES PL, JSnut del, Litk Przewalslvis Gazelle .GAZELLA PRZEWALSK1I . Tub/ishid bt/JtHPorter Hanhart imp. 79 83. PRZEWALSKIS GAZELLE. GAZELLA PRZEWALSKII, Buchn.[PLATE LIIL] Antilope gutturosa, Przewalski, Mongolia (Russian ed.), p. 18, pi. i. fig. 1 (c?) (1875); id. op. cit. Morgans Engl. Transl. i. pp. 20 & 28 (1876).Antilope cuvieri, Przewalski, Cat. Coll. (Russian) p. 110 (1888) (nee Ogilb.).Gazella przewalskii, Buchn. Melang. Biol. xiii. p. 164 (1890). Vernacular Name :—Dzeren of Mongols (PrzeioalsH)—applied to all the Gazellesof Central Asia. Size rather greater than in G. picticaudata. General colour deep fawn insummer, pale finely grizzled fawn in winter. Sides of neck (at least inwinter) and top of muzzle slaty brown; no ordinary gazelline short, acutely pointed *; coloured like the back. Rump with the white ofthe anal region running up on to the upper surface, divided in its centre bya narrow fawn-coloured line running from the back on
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