. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . f the Yarkand race than is usuallythe case. The skulls shown in fig. 29 came from Eastern(Chinese) Turkestan, two of them being from LobNor, on the western border of that territory near theGobi desert. They are thus within the distributionalarea of the present species ; that of the Mongoliangazelle being Northern and Eastern Mongolia. Theyare, moreover, much longer than typical horns of thatspecies, and apparently present no characters by whichthey
. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . f the Yarkand race than is usuallythe case. The skulls shown in fig. 29 came from Eastern(Chinese) Turkestan, two of them being from LobNor, on the western border of that territory near theGobi desert. They are thus within the distributionalarea of the present species ; that of the Mongoliangazelle being Northern and Eastern Mongolia. Theyare, moreover, much longer than typical horns of thatspecies, and apparently present no characters by whichthey can be distinguished from those of the presentanimal. Moreover, the nasal bones of these skullshave the notched terminal extremities by which thegoitred gazelle may be distinguished from both the goaand the MongoHan gazelle, in which the terminal 198 The Goitred Gazelle extremities of these bones are entire. The samenotching of the nasals is observable in the unusuallylong-horned skull from Kuldja shown in fig. 30. Therange of the Yarkand goitred gazelle apparently extendsfrom Eastern Turkestan to Lob Nor and the confinesof the Gobi Fig. 30.—Skull and Horns of the Yarkand Gazelle from Kuldja, in thepossession of Sir E. G. Loder. Gazella subgutturosa also ranges into the Altai,where it is represented by a third local race. An adultbuck presented to the British Museum in 1891 by Mr,St. George Littledale, and shot in the Sair, or SaiarMountains, in the Great Altai on the north-westernborder of Mongolia, nearly due east of a point midway 199 Game Animals of India, etc. between the Semipalatinsk and the Semirechinsk Altai,in latitude 86^ E,, longitude 47 N., is considerablylarger than the typical Persian race, standing about27 inches at the shoulder. The advanced age of thisspecimen is indicated by the nearly smooth, slightlywrinkled band at the base of the ridged portion of thehorns ; the ridges themselves being somewhat wornand about twelve in number. Compared with thea
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