. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . lour of the upper-parts and fronts of the legs insummer being pale fawn, with the front of the face light brown, andthe white of the rump reaching to the sides of the short tail. Theears are relatively small. Rudimentary knee-tufts and small face-glands, as well as inguinal glands (lacking in the goa) are present. Distribution.—The whole of northern Mongolia from the Kosh-Agatchsteppe in the west to the Khingan region in the east. Also thecentral Gobi. Two closely allied races ar
. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . lour of the upper-parts and fronts of the legs insummer being pale fawn, with the front of the face light brown, andthe white of the rump reaching to the sides of the short tail. Theears are relatively small. Rudimentary knee-tufts and small face-glands, as well as inguinal glands (lacking in the goa) are present. Distribution.—The whole of northern Mongolia from the Kosh-Agatchsteppe in the west to the Khingan region in the east. Also thecentral Gobi. Two closely allied races are recognised, the typical G. gutturosatypica and the Altai G. g. altaica. The following specimens belong tothe Altai race. R 242 RECORDS OF BIG GAME ngcn onnt curve. circum-ference. Tip to Tip. Locality. I3l 4S 02 Altai 12 4§ 6 Do. . II| 4i 51 Do. . II 4l 4l Do. II 4* 61 Do. II 4 7 Do. . io| 4 6| Do. . \o\ 4 51 Do. . Edmund G. Loder, H. Miller. Sir Edmund G. Loder, George Louw. British Museum (R. Hayne).P. B. Vander Walter Head of Goitred Gazelle. Shot by Mr. G. Fenwick-Owen. The GOITRED GAZELLE (Gazella subgutturosa). With this species we come to the true gazelles, in which the tailis considerably longer than in gutturosa, przewalskii, and picticaudata,being from six to eight inches in length and black, while tufts of longhair on the knees, glands on the face and in the groin are alwaysdeveloped. In immature animals a dark streak in front of the eyes ispresent, but in many adult specimens this and the light fawn of theupper part of the face are very indistinct and often wanting in thewinter coat. Horns, which are absent in the female, relatively large GOITRED AND SAIKIK GAZELLES 243 and divergent. The rump-patch extends to the root of the tail, andthe ears are small. Height at shoulder, from 26 to 27 inches. Thelarynx is swollen in males during the breeding-season, when it forms aprominence on the front of the u
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