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