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p. 154, 1891; Blaiiford, Fauna Brit. India, Mavim. p. 345, 

 1891; Flower and LydeM-e7-, Study of Mammals, ]). 345, 1891; 

 LydekJcer, Horns and Hoofs, p. 145, 1893, Game Animals of 

 India, etc. p. 164, 1907, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 27, 

 1913 ; Sclater and Thomas, Booli of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 93, 

 pi. Ixxxvii, 1900; Bentham, Cat. Asiat. Horns Ind. Mus. p. 44, 

 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 303, 1910, ed. 7, 

 p. 301, 1914; Pococl; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 926; Dodsworth, 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxii, p, 747, 1914. 



Nilgai. 



Typical locality plains of Peninsular India ; to which 

 area the species is restricted, the range not including the 

 trans-Indus districts, Eastern Bengal, or Malabar. 



Shoulder-height about 4 feet 6 inches. 



General colour iron-grey, tending to black on nose, 

 cheeks, and neck, and to whitish grey above eyes ; generally 

 two spots on each cheek, lips, chin, and under surface of 

 lower jaw, a gorget on throat, inner sides and backs of hams, 

 a patch in region of groin, sides and under surface of tail, 

 and two pairs of spots on pasterns above hoofs white, the 

 upper hind spots sometimes forming a half-ring ; ears greyish 

 white, with a pair of black spots on outer edge in front ; 

 under-parts, with the exception of the region of the groin 

 and a narrow median streak, and greater part of limbs, 

 together with a tuft of long hair on throat, black ; neck with 

 a short black and white mane, terminating in a whorl on 

 withers, behind which it is continued as a black spinal crest, 

 gradually decreasing in height towards tail. Female smaller 

 and slighter, with the iron-grey and black areas of male 

 replaced by tawny fawn. 



Fine horns measure from 8 to 10 (in one instance) inches 

 in length, with a basal girth of from 6^ to 9f , and a tip-to-tip 

 interval ranging from 3^ to 8 inches. 



648, a. Skin, mounted. India. P^irchased ( JVanvick). 



648, a^ Skull, with horns. India. Figured in Gray's 

 ■Cat. Ungulata, p. 141, fig. 2. Purchased, before 1852. 



47. 5. 17. 20 (648, a). Skin, young. India. 



Purchased {Zoological Society), 1847. 



50. 11. 22. 168 (648, h). Skeleton. India. 



P^ir chased. {Zoological Society), 1850. 



648, c. Skull, with horns, immature. India. 



Purchased, about 1850. 



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