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Bristles of foreliead, occiput, and back, elongate and forming a 

 recumbent mane. Cheeks with a beard. A bundle of long black 

 bristles on the throat. Body scantily covered with brownish black, and 

 yellowish brown hairs. Tail covered with short hairs, with long lateral 

 bristles. Nose and extremity brownish. Ears moderate, covered with 

 scattered bristles. Head without any warts. Hoofs black. The young 

 is of a fulvous colour, and striped with dark brown. 



Length. — Head and body 5 feet or more. Tail 1 foot. Height 30 

 to 31 inches. Skull, length 13 to 1 o^ inches, height 8^ to 9 inches. 

 Concavity on cheek, in front of orbit, deep and wide behind (variable 

 in depth), and separated from the orbit by a well-marked ridge. 



Hah. — Whole of India to the foot of the Himalayas and Arrakan, 

 from the level of the sea to 12,000 feet elevation. 



RUMINANTIA.— (Pecora, Limi,) 

 OHDEH— PBCORA. 



Teeth of two or three kinds. Incisors 8 below. Molars 6 on each side 

 in each jaw. Canines more or less developed. 8. O. cavicornia. Front of 

 upper jaw toothless. Horn-like prominences of the frontal bone covered 

 with a permanent horny sheath. 



Family, BOVID^. 



Nostrils open, bald within; nose bovine; muffle large, moist. Horns 

 smooth, spreading laterally, cylindrical or depressed, situated on the 

 frontal edge. Skull without sub-orbital pit. Of this Family we have — 



Bos taurilS, Gh^ay. — The Bull. — Domesticated throughout India. 

 The Zebu {Bos indicus) is not found domesticated in Sind. The Buffalo 

 {Biibalus huffelus, Gray) is extensively reared, in Lower Sind especially, 

 and used as milch cattle. 



Family, HELEOTRAGID^,— True Antelopes. 



Nostrils bald within, open. Nose bovine. Muffle large, naked, 

 moist. Crumen distinct or rudimentary. Horns conical, annulated, 

 i^arely present in females. 



Tetracerus. — Horns, in the males only, four. Front pair very short. 

 Sub-orbital fossas large, shallow. Feet pits in the hind feet on]}^ 

 Mammaa four. 



Tetracerus quadricornis, Qray, Cat. Ungul. Br. Mm. p. ^S; 

 Cat. Enm. Mam. p. 18; Jerd. Mam. Ind.ip. 274; Murray, Hdhh., Zool., 

 Sfc , Sind. Chow sin ghee, Sind, Hind. — The Foub-horned Antelope. 



Uniform brownish bay above, lighter beneath. Middle of belly and 

 inside of limbs white. Forelegs dark. Muzzle and edge of the ears 

 with long hairs. Upper pair of horns about 3 inches long, smooth, 

 black, pointed, erect and bending slightly forward. The additional 

 pair in front are between the orbits from ^ to | of an inch in length, 

 blunt, and erect. 



