502 Mr. Hits on the Antilope Chickara. 
The general hue is a fulvous brown, which however will pro- 
bably, as in the Stag, become duller at the approach of winter. 
Along the vertebral line the colour is rather darker; it is lighter 
and néniralistsl on the insides of the limbs*, which are pied of 
the general colour and white. The upper part of the rostrum 
is of a brown chocolate, which gradually, as it approaches the 
nostrils, melts into their colour, —a deep purplish gray. Along 
the margin and side of the nether jaw, from symphysis to ramus, 
white. The throat, breast, and abdomen, a low-toned, and, in 
parts, yellowish-white. ] In form. and colour the ear closely 
resembles that of th > fallo: -Ci loured ‘specimen of the common 
Cervus palmatus. Eye large. and prominent, and the BR very 
large even when exposed to a strong light. 
In most of the Deer tribe, in the Ox, Sheep, Goat, and also in 
every other Antilope that I have seen, the lubricous character 
of the apex and alæ of the nose comes in pretty contrast with 
the hair-clad parts that surround them and form the muzzle; 
but in this creature the covering of the facial ridge, from a little 
below the first pair of horns, becomes shorter and shorter so gra- 
dually, that there is no such line of termination. "The nostrils 
are small, and more perpendicularly placed than in any of the 
animals just alluded to. These points, and the tumidulous ap- 
pearance | of the flap that protects t the sub-, or, as I should rather 
call it, ante-ocular sinus, give a less agreeable aspect to the 
head, when viewed in front, than it has in profile. 
The following is, though perhaps unsatisfactory, the best 
description I can give of the horns:—Length of the first or 
smallest pair, 1% inch, slightly recurvate towards their tips ; 
length of the second pair, 31 inches, irregular, wavy protended 
cones, obtusely pointed ; in a trifling degree concave anteriorly, 
* This is so common a circumstance ne all guadrapege, that it may seem 
scarcely worth mention. 
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