The book of antelopes . Skull and horns of the Tibetan Gazelle.(P. Z. S. 1867, p. 245.) to the British Museum, and the species was included in Grays catalogues asProcapra picticaudata. Under this name also Gray figured a skull and pairof horns of this Gazelle in 1867, in order to point out its differences from the VOL. III. L 74 allied Asiatic form, Gazella gutturosa. This figure (fig. 54, p. 73), by the kindpermission of the Zoological Society of London, we are now able to October 1849, Sir Joseph Hooker, as related in his HimalayanJournals (ii. p. 157), met with the Goa feeding
The book of antelopes . Skull and horns of the Tibetan Gazelle.(P. Z. S. 1867, p. 245.) to the British Museum, and the species was included in Grays catalogues asProcapra picticaudata. Under this name also Gray figured a skull and pairof horns of this Gazelle in 1867, in order to point out its differences from the VOL. III. L 74 allied Asiatic form, Gazella gutturosa. This figure (fig. 54, p. 73), by the kindpermission of the Zoological Society of London, we are now able to October 1849, Sir Joseph Hooker, as related in his HimalayanJournals (ii. p. 157), met with the Goa feeding on the short grass nearthe Cholamoo Lake in Sikim, at an elevation of 17,000 feet above the sea-level, and in other adjoining localities on the Donkia Pass between Sikim Fie. Goa Antelopes on the Donkia Pass.(Hookers Himalayan Journals, ii. p. 139.) and Tibet. Through his kindness and that of his publishers we are enabledto introduce the illustration of this striking scene (fig. 55) prepared for hiswell-known work. Other travellers and sportsmen have also noticed the Goa or TibetanGazelle in Ladak and on the frontiers of Tibet. But by far the most completeaccount of the habits and ways of life of this Antelope is that given byMajor-General Kinloch in the various editions of his excellent work onLarge-Game Shooting in Tibet. To the east of Ladak, General Kinloch tells us, in the country that liesbetween the Upper Indus and the Sutlej, are vast expanses of undulating 75 hills and valleys of great elevation utterly destitute of forest and with butscanty indications of vegetation. The greater part of these wild uplandswould appear at first to be a perfect desert, but, as a matter of fact, on closerinspection, it will be found that there is hardly a slope, howe
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