als trying to force one of a small
herd of young bucks to separate from the rest. "The gazelles stood
in a circle, and maintained their ground well by keeping their heads
very gallantly outwards to their foes, until at length, seeing us,
both sides made off. We laid the greyhounds into and killed one of
the jackals."

NO. 457. GAZELLA FUSCIFRONS.
_The Baluchistan Gazelle_.

HABITAT.--The deserts of Jalk between Seistan and Baluchistan.

DESCRIPTION.--"Central facial band strongly marked, grizzled black;
light facial streak grey, fairly definite, as is also the blackish
dark facial streak; cheeks and anterior of neck grey; back of the
neck, back, sides, haunches and legs sandy; lateral streaks wanting;
belly and rump whitish; knee-brushes long, black; ears very long;
horns (of female only known) strongly annulated, bending forwards
and very slightly inwards at the tips" (_Sir V. Brooke_, 'P. Z. S.,'
1873, p. 545).

SIZE.--Total length, from tip of nose to end of tail, 4 feet; height
at shoulder, 1 foot 11 inches.

This curious species was first brought to notice by Mr. Blanford.
It is distinguished, he says, from the Indian _G. Bennetti_--first
by colour, and secondly by the greater length and more strongly
marked annulation of the horns of the female. "The face in the Indian
gazelle," he says, "is nearly uniform rufescent fawn colour; the
parts that are black and blackish in _G. fuscifrons_ being only a
little darker than the rest in _G. Bennetti_; the back also in the
latter is more rufescent and less yellow, and the hairs are less
dense."

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The following two species belong to section _B_, of which the females
are hornless.

NO. 458. GAZELLA SUBGUTTEROSA.
_The Persian Gazelle_.

NATIVE NAMES.--_Kik_, _Sai-kik_, and _Jairan_, Turki of Yarkand and
Kashgar (_Blanford_).

HABITAT.--The high lands of Persia; to the north-west it is found
as far as Tabriz; it is probably, according to Blanford, the gazelle
of Meshed and Herat; on the east it extends to the frontier of India,
and is found in Afghanistan and northern Baluchistan; a variety also
exists in Yarkand.

[Illustration: _Gazella subgutterosa_.]

DESCRIPTION.--"Hair in winter rough and coarse, in summer much
softer and smoother. During both seasons the dirty white of the face
and cheeks is only relieved by the dark facial streak, which is short
and narrow, but defined by a sprinkling of rufous hairs; the l