of two Species of Antelope from India. 523 
Note. —It is to be regretted that, owing to the accidental de- 
lay which has attended the printing of the foregoing paper, the 
respectable authors of the Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères 
have, in the 44th livraison of that very splendid work, published 
an imperfect description of the Chickara, or, as it is there printed, 
Tchicara, which is undoubtedly the Antilope Chickara above 
described. 
In the work referred to it is stated that the largest or posterior 
horns are “ grossièrement annelées à leur base;" whereas, by 
reference to the head in the Museum of this Society, it appears 
that Major-general Hardwicke is correct in stating that those 
-horns are entirely smooth. The French description, and the 
figure which accompanies it, are stated to have been received 
from M. Devaucel; and there is reason to believe that both 
were taken from a drawing which that naturalist saw in Major- 
general Hardwicke's possession, and of which he solicited a 
copy when he visited the Major-general at the artillery canton- 
ments at Dum-Dum in 1822. At that time M. Devaucel also 
saw both the male and the female alive in the possession of 
General Hardwicke; and the French description might after- 
wards have been partly made up from memory ; for it is rather 
remarkable that M. Devaucel should have asked for a copy of 
the General's drawing, if he had actually the living animals in 
his own possession, as asserted in his communication to the au- 
thors of the French work. It is also remarkable, if M. Devaucel 
had such a good opportunity of giving a full description of the 
species, that the French authors should have occasion to regret 
the insufficiency of the notes which were transmitted to them 
with the drawing. M. Devaucel notices the name by which this 
animal is known in Nepaul; but in all General Hardwicke's in- 
quiries, which were more extensive than M. Devaucel's could have 
been, he did not discover that the animal was found in Nepaul. 
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