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 Mammiferes 

 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 " grossi^rement annelees k 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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