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Mits. p, 27, 1913 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, 

 vol. i, p. 215, pi. xxiv, 1895; Bentham, Cat. Asiat. Horns 

 Ind. Mus. p. 46, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 

 p. 302, 1910, ed. 7, p. 300, 1914 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Sac. 1910, 

 p. 921 ; Wrougliton, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxi, 

 pp. 825 and 1194, 1912 ; Dodsworth, ibid. vol. xxii, p. 747, 1914. 



Tetraceros lodes and paccerois, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 vol. viii, p. 90, 1847. 

 Including : — 



Antilope sub-4-cornutus, Elliot, Madras Journal, vol. x, p. 225, 

 pi. iv, fig. 2, 1839. 



Tetraceros subquadricornis. Gray, List Mamm, Brit. Mtis. p. 159, 

 1843 ; Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 170. 



Tetraceros subquadricornutus, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 vol. viii, p. 89, 1847 ; Gray, Knoivsley Menagerie, p. 70, 1850, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 117, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 70, 

 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 19, 1872, Ha7id-List Bumi- 

 nants Brit. Mus. p. 89, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 225, 1862; Fitzinger, Sitzber. h. Ah. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. lix, pt. i, p. 170, 1869; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, 

 p. 527 ; Garrod, ibid. 1877, p. 4. 



Tetraceros quadricornis typicus, Sclater and TJiomas, Book of 

 Antelopes, vol. i, p. 215, 1895. 



Chousingha ; Four-Horned Antelope. 



Typical locality the plains of Peninsular India, to which 

 area the species is restricted. 



Size small and build delicate ; shoulder-height about 

 25 inches. General colour dull rufous brown, passing, with- 

 out a sharp line of demarcation, into whitish on under-parts ; 

 muzzle, backs of ears and a line down front of limbs blackish 

 brown ; fronts and sides of pasterns whitish, and occasionally 

 a pair of whitish spots on each cheek. Basal length of skull 

 6^ inches, maximum width 2^^, interval between muzzle and 

 orbit 3| inches. Fine specimens of the posterior pair of 

 horns measure from 3| to 4^ inches in length, and there is 

 one example stated to measure 5 inches. In three examples 

 with posterior horns of 4^ inches, the respective measure- 

 ments of the front horns are 2^, 2^, and 2| inches. 



37. 6. 10. 68 (628, a). Frontlet and horns. Guna. 



Presented hy Col. J. Evans, 1837. 

 628, h. Frontlet and horns. Same locality. Same history. 



38. 10. 29. 24 (628,^). Imperfect skull, with horns. 

 India. Presented hy J. A. Reeve, Esq., 1838. 



43. 1. 12. 86. Skull, with horns, and skin. Northern 

 India Presented hy B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 1843. 



