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Show 1873.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE GENUS GAZELLA. 547 in his description of the Mammals met with by him during his journey in Siberia. In this work Radde informs us that the species, even since the days of Pallas, has retreated south and east from the Russian boundary to a considerable distance, and that now it has entirely ceased, even in its winter wanderings, to visit the banks of the Upper Onon, in which locality a century ago it was plentiful. Even in Dauria there are, according to Radde, only two localities where the species remains during the summer and breeds. It appears to prefer bare hilly ground in the neighbourhood of small lakes. As winter approaches, enormous herds collect together and wander northwards, crossing the Argun river to the east of Soktui and Abagaitui. Radde considers the chief cause of these wanderings to be thirst; no snow falling in the desert of Gobi in the early winter, and the rivers and small lakes being so hard frozen that they can no longer break the ice with their feet, they are impelled to wander northwards in search of snow. In the middle of June the female produces, as a rule, two young, which in three days are strong enough to follow their mother at full speed. As far as Radde could ascertain, G. gutturosa is not found at the present day to the west of the upper Argun in Transbaikalia, upon Russian territory. It is unknown in Mantchuria. 14. GAZELLA PICTICAUDATA. Procapra picticaudata, Hodgs. Journ. Asiat. Beng. xv. p. 334, tab. 2. 1869. Procapra picticaudata, Kinl. Large Game of Thib. p. 10. Hair in winter long and softish. Facial and lateral markings wanting; breast, belly, and anal disk, which surrounds the tail, dirty white; the rest of the body grizzled fawn-colour, becoming more rusty towards the anal disk, a rusty line sometimes running through the disk to the short tail, the tip of which is rusty brown. The hair about the corners of the mouth elongated. In the summer the coat is short and of a slaty grey colour. Ears very short. Horns long, annulated, diverge as they rise, bending forwards and backwards, again forwards and a little inwards at the tips. Females hornless. Height about 18". Skull: anteorbital fossa very shallow; nasals converging to a point and rather elongated. Hab. Plains and valleys of Ladak. Kinloch, in his work on the Large Game of Thibet, gives a very interesting article upon this species. 15. GAZELLA DAMA. 1766. Antilope dama, Pall. Misc. p. 5. 1788. , G m . Syst. Nat. p. 183 (part.). 1812. , Licht. Berl. Mag. Naturk. p. 170 (part.). 1826. -, Riipp. Atlas, pp. 39,43, pl. 14,16. 1827. , H a m . Smith, G. A. K. p. 330 (part.); Licht. Darst.t. 3 & 4 . 35* |