520 Major-General Hanpwicxke’s Descriptions 
Of these animals, a male and female were presented by the 
Court of Kathmandre to the Resident, the Honourable Edward 
Gardner ; and the male is living in the collection of animals in 
the Governor-general’s menagerie at Barrackpore. 
Its flesh is, in the estimation of those who have eaten of it, 
considered delicate venison. 
I find, on conversing with an intelligent native from the Val- 
ley of Kathmandre, that the name of this animal is pronounced 
with a single o, and open; as in over, go-cart, &c. 
It is considered by the natives of Nepaul as the most active 
of the Antelope species. It is seen in numerous herds, but is 
rarely taken, excepting by stratagem. If pursued, they dis- 
perse, and fly to precipices and places to which no dogs can fol- 
low them. 
The subject from which the drawing and description was 
taken gave me proof of its agility in a space of about ten feet 
square, inclosed by stakes of eight or nine feet in height. These 
the animal attempted to spring over, and at every leap so nearly 
effected its purpose as to appear to a person looking on in im- 
minent danger of being staked. 
**** Cornibus quatuor. 
ANTILOPE CHICKARA. 
A. cornibus quatuor, anterioribus erectis cylindricis brevibus 
abrupte acuminatis basi subapproximatis, posterioribus sub- 
elongatis subulatis levigatis rectis paululum divergentibus. 
Tas. XV. and XVI. 
"This species of Antelope seems hitherto to have escaped any 
particular description of the naturalist ; and this circumstance is 
the more remarkable, as the animal is not scarce in India. — . 
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