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over the former on the limbs above the knees. The inferior parts, 

 insides of the limbs, and entire legs below the knees, as well as the 

 insides of the ears and the muzzle, are dirty white. The outsides 

 of the ears are black, like the rest of the superior surface, but dotted 

 with the brown-red of the flanks: the periophthalmic region nearly 

 naked and of an earthy red mixed with grey ; round the sinuses the 

 same : irides brown-red : horns and hoofs black j naked skin of 

 the nose, the same. 



" In the female, the black of the superior parts is less full than in 

 the male and sometimes mixed with grey. In her, too, and in the 

 young male, the parts above described as white are sprinkled often 

 with the red prevailing on the parts next to them : and, lastly, the 

 belly is not immaculate white but has a black sprinkling. 



" The female has four teats. 



" The Nepalese call this animal the Thar, The chase of it is a 

 favourite diversion with the Gooroong tribes especially, who usually 

 kill it with poisoned arrows. It is not speedy, as might be inferred 

 from what has been said of its make. Its flesh is very coarse and 

 bad : but there is plenty of it, and these mountaineers, who are apt 

 to look to the quantity more than the quality of such flesh as a 

 Hindoo Government deems licit food for them, prize the Thdf very 

 highly, and hunt him very eagerly. 



" The following are the size and dimensions of a fine mature 

 male. 



ft. in. 

 Length of the body, from the setting on of the horns 



to the root of the tail 4 1 J 



ofthehead 11| 



of the tail (flesh only) 3| 



■ to the end of the hair 6| 



Height at the shoulder 3 1 



Depth of the chest 1 3± 



Height of the fore- leg to the line of the chest ...... 1 9§ 



Utmost girth of the head 1 9 



of the body 3 2 



Length of the ears 7f 



of the horns (in a straight line) 8 



Basal diameter of ditto lf- 



Basal interval of ditto 0|" 



. Of Mr. Hodgson's account of the Chiru Antelope, Antilope Hodg- 

 sonii, Abel, a full abstract has already been published in the * Pro- 

 ceedings,' Part I., p. 52. He has had opportunities of examining 

 carefully three individuals. One of these, which he possessed alive, 

 furnished materials for the description originally given. The second 

 was a very old male, noticed at p. 54, in which the ruddy hue of the 

 upper surface had merged almost into hoary grey on the neck, the 

 back of the head, the ears, and the buttocks. In this individual the 

 stripes extended down the whole of the legs as far as the hoofs. 

 The third specimen, a young male or a female ?, had the legs simi- 



