ns, curved
gracefully backwards, and in some species so elegantly formed as to
take the shape of a lyre on looking at them full in front. The females
of some have smaller, smoother horns, but others are hornless. The
skull has an anteorbital vacuity, with a small anteorbital fossa.
The auditory bullae are large; "eye-pits small; groin-pits distinct;
large feet-pits in all feet; knees tufted" (_Jerdon_). The face has
a white band running from the outer side of the base of each horn
down to the muzzle, the space between forming a dark triangular patch
bordered with a deeper tint. Sir Victor Brooke classifies the twenty
or so known species as follows:--

I.--BACK UNSTRIPED.
Dentition:--Inc. 0/3; can. 0/1; prem. 3/3; molars, 3/3.

A.--_The white colour of the rump not encroaching on the fawn of the
haunches._

_a_. BOTH SEXES WITH HORNS.

Horns lyrate or semi-lyrate: _Gazella dorcas_; _G. Isabella_; _G.
rufifrons_; _G. loevipes_; _G. melanura_.
Horns non-lyrate: _Gazella Cuvieri_; _G. leptoceros_; _G. Spekii_;
_G. Arabica_; _G. Bennetti_; _G. fuscifrons_.

_b_. FEMALES HORNLESS.

_Gazella subgutterosa_; _G. gutterosa_; _G. picticaudata_.

B.--_White of rump projecting forwards in an angle into the fawn
colour of the haunches._

_Gazella dama_; _G. mohr_; _G. Soemmerringii_; _G. Granti_.

II.--BACK WITH A WHITE MEDIAN STRIPE.
One premolar less in the lower jaw: _Gazella euchore_.

Of the above species the following come under the scope of this work:
_Gazella Bennetti_; _G. fuscifrons_; _G. subgutterosa_; _G.
picticaudata_.

NO. 456. GAZELLA BENNETTI.
_The Indian Gazelle_ (_Jerdon's No. 229_).

NATIVE NAMES.--_Chikara_, Hindi; _Kal-punch_, Hindi; _Kal-sipi_,
Mahratti; _Hirni_, in the Punjab; _Tiska_, also _Budari_ and
_Mudari_, Canarese; _Barudu-jinka_, Telegu; _Porsya_ (male) and
_Chari_ (female), of Baoris.

HABITAT.--Mr. W. Blanford defines the limits of this species as
follows ('P. Z. S.,' 1873, p. 315)--the italics are mine: "It is found
throughout the Punjab, North-west Provinces, Rajputana, Sind
(unless in part replaced by the next species), Kachh, Kathiawar,
Guzerat, and the whole Bombay Presidency, _with the exception of the
Western Ghats and the low land on Konkan, along the western coast,
south of the neighbourhood of Daman_. It is also met with in the
Narbada and Tapti valleys, Bandelkand, the Son valley, and Rewah,
in the Nagpur and Chanda country, Berar, the Hyderabad territories,
and othe