_Gazella subgutturosa_, =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 160 (1843); =id.= Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 231 (1846); =Hutt.= J. A. S. B. xv. p. 151 (1846) (Candahar); =Gray=, Knowsl. Men. p. 4 (1850); =id.= P. Z. S. 1850, p. 113; =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 58 (1852); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 193 (1853); =Blyth=, Cat. Mamm. Mus. As. Soc. p. 172 (1863); =Wolf=, Zool. Sketches, pl. xxii.; =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1869, p. 602; =Blanf.= Zool. Abyss, p. 261, pl. i. fig. 4 (horns) (1870); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 38 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 107 (1873); =Blanf.= P. Z. S. 1873, p. 313 (distribution); =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 545; =Przewalski=, Mongolia (Russian ed.), pl. i. fig. 2 (1875); =id.= Morgan’s Engl. Transl. i. p. 207 (1876); =Blanf.= E. Persia, ii. p. 91 (1876); =Severtz.= Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xviii. p. 170 (1876); =Danf. & Alst.= P. Z. S. 1877, p. 276 (Tigris); =iid.= P. Z. S. 1880, p. 55; =Scl.= List An. Z. S. (8) p. 141 (1883), (9) p. 155 (1896); =Sterndale=, Mamm. Ind. p. 466 (1884); =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1886, p. 2; =Scully=, J. A. S. B. lvi. pt. 2, p. 76 (1887); =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. P.-B. ix.) p. 136 (1887); =Thos.= Linn. Trans. (2) v. p. 64 (1889); =Büchn.= Mél. Biol. xiii. p. 160 (1890); =W. Scl.= Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. ii. p. 160 (1891); =Blanf.= Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm. p. 528 (1891); =Jent.= Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. P.-B. xi.) p. 168 (1892); =Ward=, Horn Meas. (1) p. 118 (1892), (2) p. 159 (1896); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 180 (1893); =Percy=, Badm. Big Game Shooting, ii. p. 342 (1894); =Satunin=, Zool. JB. Syst. ix. p. 310 (1896) (Transcaucasia). “_Antilope dorcas_, var. _persica_, Rüpp.,” =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 160 (1843). _Gazella subgutturosa_, var. _yarkandensis_, =Blanf.= J. A. S. B. xliv. pt. 2, p. 112; =id.= Yark. Miss., Mamm. p. 88, pl. xv. (1879). _Gazella hillieriana_ et _G. mongolica_, =Heude=, Mém. Hist. Nat. Chine, ii. p. 245, pls. xxxvi. & xxxvii. (1894). VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Dshairan_ (_Pallas_), _Ahu_ (_Blanford_) of Persians; _Karakeuruk_ (= Black-tail) of Khirghiz Tartars (_Pallas_); _Kik_ (or _Sai-kik_) and _Tairan_ of Turkis of Yarkand (_Blanford_). Size medium, height at withers about 26–27 inches. General colour dark sandy fawn. Face-markings indistinct, the central band visible in youth gradually interrupted and replaced by white as age advances. Dark facial streaks in front of eyes present, but little defined. An anteorbital gland present. Larynx swollen, forming a peculiar projection in front of the neck. Ears of medium length, pointed, their backs short-haired even in winter, pale fawn. Dark lateral band not, or scarcely, darker than the back, from which it is separated by an indistinct light lateral band. Pygal band present, not strongly marked. Tail 8 or 10 inches long, crested, black. Knee-brushes present, brown or black.