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ANTILOPIDiE, 



Leiirith. — Head and body 38 to 42 iticlios, tail 5 to G inclios^ lieigbt 

 at shoulder two feet or more. 



Hah. — Sind and the Punjab, but is rai'e and seldom seen in open 

 plains, except in places where the herbap^e is not stunted, Jordon says 

 it is found throughout India. It abounds in the hills of the Eastern 

 Ghats, from near Madras northwards. Not known in the Gangetic 

 Valley, nor in the countries to the east of Bengal. 



Family, ANTILOPIDiE,— Antelopes. 



Nostrils open, bald within. Nose bovine, narrow, simple. Crumen 

 distinct. Horns in males and females. False hoofs well developed. 

 Skull — nose aperture moderate, intermaxillaries generally reaching to 

 the nasals. 



Gazella. — Fur short, close-pressed, no dorsal streak. Knees tufted. 

 Horns lyrate, elongate, closely ringed. Eye pits small, groin pits 

 distinct, feet pits in all feet. 



GazeUa bennetti, Sykes ; Jerd. Ma.n. Ind. p. 280; Murray, 

 Kdhlc, Zool., S)'c., Sind, p. 97. — The Chinkara or Ravine Deer. 



Colour above deep fawn brown, darker where it joins the white of 

 the sides and buttocks. Chin, breast, lower parts, and buttock behind, 

 white. Tail, knee tufts, and fetlocks, black, a dark brown spot or patch 

 ou the nose, and a dark line from the eyes to the mouth, bordered by a 

 light one above. 



Length. — Head and body of adult male 42 — 44 inches. Tail 8— 9 

 inches. Height 26 — -28 inches. Horns 12 — 3 3 inches. Largest pair in 

 Kurrachee Museum 14^ inches. As a rule the Sind form has the tips 

 of the horns curved forward. Horns of females 4 — 6 inches long. 



Hub. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Kattiawar, Guzerat, Central 

 India and the Berai's, Kutch, Rajputana, and Hurriane. It is numerous 

 everywhere in Sind on the low undulating hills. On the Pubb range it 

 is met with usually in company with the Gud, Oois cycloceros. Dr. 

 Jerdon mentions GazeUa christli, Gray, from Sind and Kutch, and says 

 it is paler in colour, with the horns smaller and more slender, and with 

 the tips abruptly bent inwards. This is joined by Blyth to Bennetti. 

 It is possible that Q. subgidturosa, Gray, of North Persia, occurs in 

 Sind. 



Family, CAPRID/E,— True Goats. 



Horns, usually in both sexes, situate behind the orbits, erect, com- 

 pressed, curved backwards, with a longitudinal keel in front. Chin of 

 males bearded ; bony cores of the horns, thick, porous and cellular. 



Capra, Linn. — Horns in both sexes long, angular and recurved. 

 No muffle, nor eye or inguinal pits. Feet pits in the forefeet only, 

 or in none. Females with two mammas. 



Capra aeg-agrus, Pall. Zool. Rosso. As. DeF. Viag in Pers ; Hutton. 

 Cede. Jonrn. Nat. Hist. pi. xix., p. 521 ; Blanford's Eastern Persict, 

 p. 80 J Murray, Hdhlc, Zool., Sj'c, Sind. Hircus gazella. Gray. Oat. 



