The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
312 (1853); =Radde=, Ost-Sibirien, p. 254, pl. xi. fig.
1 (1862); =Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 201 (1880).
_Cerophorus (Antilope) gutturosa_, =Blainv.= Bull. Soc. Philom.
1816, p. 75.
_Cemas gutturosa_, =Oken=, Lehrb. Nat. iii. pt. 2, p. 737
(1816).
_Gazella gutturosa_, =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 231
(1846); =id.= List Ost. B. M. p. 56 (1847); =id.= Knowsl. Men.
p. 3 (1850); =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 546; =Flow. & Lyd.=
Mamm. p. 342 (1891); =Ward=, Horn Meas. (1) p. 119 (1892), (2)
p. 160 (1896); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 182 (1893); =Percy=,
Badm. Big Game Shooting, ii. p. 341 (1894).
_Procapra gutturosa_, =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 115; =id.= Cat.
Ung. B. M. p. 54 (1852); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 232
(1862); =Gray=, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 244, fig. (skull); =Fitz.=
SB. Ak. Wien, lix. p. 161 (1869); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 37
(1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 105 (1873); =Flow. & Gars.=
Cat. Coll. Surg. ii. p. 266 (1884); =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus.
(Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 136 (1887); =id.= Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus.
(op. cit. xi.) p. 167 (1892).
_Chinese Antelope_, =Penn.= Syn. Mamm. p. 35 (1771).
_Antilope tzeiran_, =Zimm.= Spec. Zool. Geogr. p. 543 (1777).
_Antilope orientalis_, =Erxl.= Syst. R. A. p. 288 (1777);
=Gatt.= Brev. Zool. i. p. 82 (1780); =Desm.= N. Dict. d’H. N.
(1) xxiv. Tabl. p. 33 (1804).
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Dzéren_ of Mongols, the male _Scharcholdsi_,
the female _Ohno_, the kid _Ingdacha_. _Hoang-yang_ (Yellow
Goat) of Chinese. _Tzonrah_ (♂) and _Vgovóh_ of Tanguts
(_Pallas_).
Size fairly large; height at withers rather over 30 inches; form
stout and thick. General colour fawn, paler than in most of the other
species, but the rump and sides are white, as is the whole of the
limbs. Gazelline face-markings absent; top of the muzzle browner than
the rest of the head; sides of the muzzle and cheeks white. Ears short
but pointed, thickly furred, their backs pale fawn, nearly white. No
lateral bands, either dull or light. No knee-brushes. Tail very short,
white, its tip brown.
According to Radde all the parts which are fawn in winter are in summer
of an intense isabel-yellow.
Skull long and narrow, with a heavy muzzle. Anteorbital fossæ obsolete.
Nasals long and broad. Basal length (in a not fully adult specimen) 9
inches, greatest breadth 4·1, muzzle to orbit 5·5.
Horns short in proportion to the size of the animal; heavily and
closely ringed; basally they are parallel to each other, diverging
above, with their tips again gently curved in towards each other.
_Female._ Similar, but without horns.
_Hab._ Northern and Eastern Mongolia, and southern borders
of Russian Transbaikalia.
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