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Show 1873.] GAZELLES OF INDIA AND PERSIA. 317 I, some years since, obtained heads of the Gazelle from Kachh, through Mr. A. B. Wynne of the Geological Survey, and I found them identical in all respects with those from Central India. Recently Dr. Stoliczka, in his "Notice of the Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh," J. A. S. B. 1872, vol. xii. part ii. p. 229, has also identified the Kachh Gazelle with G. bennetti. W e may therefore, I think, safely dismiss all idea of G. christii being any thing distinct from G. bennetti. The specimen formerly in the United Service Institution's Museum appears to have been presented to some other museum when the small collection of zoological specimens formerly belonging to the Institution was dispersed; and I have not been able to trace it. At the same time, the heads of Gazelles noticed by Jerdon with the horns more bent forward may possibly have belonged to the next species, which should in that case be looked for in the deserts of the Indus plains and Rajputana. Head of Gazella fuscifrons $ . 3. GAZELLA FUSCIFRONS, sp. nov. G. cornibusfcemince subobsolete annulatis, superne valde antice cur-vatis; dorso ochraceo ; fronte et linea nigrescente a basi cornu utriusque antice producta nigrescentibus ; regione nasali superiore maculaque elongata utrinque ad genas subnigris, facie reliqua isabellina; auribus extus isabellinis, intus albescentibus, dimidio superiore fusco marginatis ; cetera similis G. bennetti. Hab. circum Jalk, ad oram meridionalem desertorum Drangianam |