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before the orbits. Fifty inches long, exclusive of the tail, and 

 twenty-seven high. Homs seated on the crest of the frontais, six 

 inches long, parallel to each other, and the points inclined inwards; 

 20 to 30 annuli extending two thirds up the horns, crowded and 

 vague, especially towards the base, somewhat interrupted by faint 

 longitudinal strics, pearled, truncated, independent of each other, 

 and equally developed all round. No suborbital sinuses. A half 

 muzzle. Upper lip clad. Tail conico-depressed and half nude only 

 below. Fur of two sorts, abundant and loosely applied to the skin. 

 A short semi-erect mane on the vertex. Knees usually callous and 

 nude, but not congenitally so. 



Colours rūsty and brow'n, paler below. Line of the vertex, tail, 

 chest, and a stripe down the front of the fore legs and back of the 

 hind brown-black. Outsides of the ears rūsty. Lips and chin ru- 

 fescent white. A large patch of pure \vhite at the junction of the 

 head and neck below. Homs, hoofs, and muzzle black. Iris 

 dark hazel. Eye mean. 



Female : rather smaller and paler hued. 



Young : redder and destitute of marks, or mane. 



Inhabits the juxta-Himalayan region of Nepal. 



4. Ant. Thar, Hodgs. The Thdr of the Nepalese. Characters 

 less decidedly Caprine than in the lašt. Very nearly allied to the 

 Cambing Ootan. Back straight. Withers higher than the croup, 

 and structure suited for heavy climbing, not for leaping. Limbs 

 very stout and rigid, \\\\h higher hoofs, the edges of which are 

 raised above the pads. General form of the scull Cervane, ^ith the 

 ridge-line moderately convexed, and the parietės not depressed at a 

 strong angle to the frontai bones. A deep indentation before the orbits. 

 Horns posterior to the orbits but below the crest of the frontais, eight 

 inches long, rather stouter and less falcated than in the preceding, 

 subdivergent with the points inclined outwards ; with 20 to 30 crowd- 

 ed annuli extending two thirds up the horns, the annuli truncated, 

 pearled, equal all round, independent, broken by decided longitu- 

 dinal stri(B. One inch below the eye a suborbital sinus opening on 

 a nude space by a round puncture, and furnished with a fleshy 

 thick gland secreting a viscous humour, as in Ant. Sumatrensis. 

 A half muzzle larger than in the preceding, and spreading a little 

 over the upper lip. Tail shorter, depressed, nude below. Fur of 

 one sort only, and scanty, harsh, and applied to the skin. A semi- 

 erect mane, as in the Ghoral. Knees callous, perhaps congenitally 

 so : sternum not so. Size large. Sixty-four inches long by thirty- 

 eight high, and upwards of 200 Ibs. in M'eight. 



Colour of the whole aniraal above, with the entire head and neck, 

 jet black ; on the flanks mixed ■« ith deep clay red. The limbs and 

 hams outside, as far down as the great fiexures, clay red, nearly or 

 wholly unmixed ; the ręst of the limbs hoary or rufescent hoary. Out- 

 sides of ears dark. Cliest pale. No stripes down the legs. Lips and 

 chin dull hoary, and a stripe of pure hoary running backwards over 



