ateral
and pygal bands are very faintly indicated, the dark bands being more
rufous, the light band rather paler than the grey fawn colour of the
upper parts of the body; breast and belly white; tail and ears
moderate in length, the former blackish-rufous. Horns absent in the
female; in the male long, annulated and lyrate, the points projecting
inwards" (_Sir V. Brooke_). According to Blanford, who seemed
doubtful whether it should not be raised to the rank of a species,
the Yarkand variety differs from the typical _G. subgutterosa_ in
the very much darker markings on the face, and in the much smaller
degree to which the horns diverge; he adds, however, that as there
is some variation in face-markings amongst Persian specimens, it is
perhaps better to consider the Yarkand race as only a variety. He
gives a very good coloured plate of the animal. ('Sc. Results, Second
Yarkand Mission--Mammalia.')

NO. 459. GAZELLA PICTICAUDATA.
_Thibetan Gazelle_.

NATIVE NAME.--_Goa_, Thibetan.

HABITAT.--Ladakh. Abundant, according to Kinloch, on the plateau to
the south-east of the Tsomoriri lake, on the hills east of Hanle,
and in the Indus valley from Demchok, the frontier village of Ladakh,
as far down as Nyima. He had also seen it on the Nakpogoding pass
to the north of the Tsomoriri, and picked up a horn on the banks of
the Sutlej beyond the Niti pass.

DESCRIPTION.--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 hairs 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. Skull:
anteorbital fossa _very_ shallow, nasals converging to a point, and
rather elongated (_Sir Victor Brooke_, 'P. Z. S.,' 1873, p. 547).

SIZE.--Height, about 18 inches.

There is a lovely little photograph of this gazelle in Kinloch's
'Large Game of Thibet,' wonderfully life-like; the head seems to
stand out from the page. He describes it under Hodgson's generic name,
_Procapra_, but there is no reason for separating it from _Gazella_.
He says: "The goa avoid rocky and steep ground, p