Game Animals of India, etc. 



the fore-limb the black band commences on the side 

 of the chest and extends on to part of the outer side 

 of the leg, although in the hind-leg the whole outer 

 surface, as well as the front, is black. In both 

 specimens the black is continuous over the whole of 

 the face ; but in a head from Changchenmo figured in 

 Kinloch's Large Game Shooting in Tihet^ etc., the black 

 is patchy, and does not extend continuously over the 

 face, the same condition obtaining in a head from the 

 same district presented by Mr. Walter Rothschild to 

 the British Museum. About the same amount of 

 black is noticeable on the face of a buck shot in Ladak 

 by Major Powell Cotton, but the dark stripe on the 

 fore-leg is narrower than usual, partially interrupted, 

 and stops short at the upper pastern, instead of 

 descending to the hoof, while in the hind-leg the dark 

 markings are wanting. Since there is no evidence that 

 these variations are local peculiarities, they must for the 

 present be regarded as individual. They are nevertheless 

 decidedly noteworthy. 



Although General A. A. Kinloch, who was one of 

 the first sportsmen to describe the chiru in its native 

 haunts, states that the females have short horns, other 

 observers have shown that this sex is hornless. The 

 does, which have two teats, lack the black markings of 

 the bucks. 



The skull of a chiru is remarkable and unmistakable 

 on account of the great relative size of the aperture and 

 cavity of the nose. 



Although the chiru was first made known to science 

 in 1826 and more fully described by Brian Hodgson 

 eight years later, it was comparatively little known to 

 sportsmen before the appearance of General Kinloch's 

 book on big game shooting in 1869. It is there stated 

 that although horns had been previously brought by 

 traders to Naini Tal and Darjiling, it was not till some 

 few years before 1869 that the animal had been killed 

 by an English sportsman. The fortunate individual 



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