‘TETRACEROS. 479 
of a horsey look about it. McMaster says that in some parts of the 
Coimbatore district the natives described this creature to Colonel 
Douglas Hamilton as a wild horse, and called it by a name signifying 
such. He also notices the resemblance of the Gondi name Guwraya, to 
the Hindi Gora. 
GENUS TETRACEROS. 
Horns four, conical, smooth, slightly bent forward at tip, the anterior 
ones very short, sometimes rudiment tary, which has led to the distinction 
of a separate species by some naturalists ; slightly ringed at the base. 
The posterior ones situated far back on the frontal bone, the .anterior 
ones above the orbits ; eye-pits small, linear; muffle large; feet-pits in 
the hind feet ; no groin-pits ; four mamme ; canine teeth in the males ; 
females hornless. ‘The skull is characterized by the large sub-orbital 
fossee which occupy nearly the whole cheek. The various species— 
sub-quadricornutus of Elliot, zodes and paccerois of Hodgson—are but 
varieties of the following only Indian species. 
No. 463. TETRACEROS QUADRICORNIS. 
The Four-horned Antelope ( Jerdon’s No. 227). 
Native NamEs.—Chowsingha, Chowka. Jerdon also gives Bherki, 
Bekra, and Jangli-bakra, but I have also heard these names given by 
natives to the rb- faced deer (Cer- 
vulus aureus) ; Bhir-kura (the male) 
and Bhir (female) Gondi; Bhirul of 
Bheels; ofr, Bustar; Kond-guri, 
Canarese ; Konda-gori, ‘Telegu (/er- 
don). Kinloch also gives Doda, 
Hindi. 
Hasitat.—Throughout India, but 
not in Ceylon or Burmah. 
DescripTion.—A small brownish- 
bay animal, slightly higher at the 
croup than at the shoulder, which 
gives it a poky look, lighter beneath 
and whitish inside the limbs and in 
the middle of the belly; fore-legs, 
muzzle, and edge of ears dark; fetlocks dark, sometimes ringed with 
lighter colour. The colouring varies a good deal. The horns are 
situated as I have before described ; the anterior ones are subject to 
Letraceros quladrsedrrise 
