127 



The only wild specimens of this antelope I have seen were in 

 Central India and in the Northern Circars near Daracondah in the 

 Golcondah Zemindary : also on several occasions in Orissa. They 

 did not to me appear to be nearly so active as the muntjac, or per- 

 haps they are more easily confused, for I remember at least two 

 instances of their being captured alive by beaters who were em- 

 ployed to drive hog into the plain : HAWKEYE has however, vide 

 page 118, mentioned that the muntjac is sometimes thus captured, 

 so I may be mistaken in this idea. 



Except in a museum, I have never seen a head with the anterior 

 horn well developed : " a knob or corneous tip which often falls 

 " off, leaving a black callous skin," vide page 274 of Jerdon, being, 

 as far as I can remember, their usual condition. Those I have 

 seen, struck me as being of a lighter color, chestnut instead of bay, 

 than the muntjac. I do not remember having ever tasted the flesh 

 of this antelope. 



I perfectly agree with Jerdon, page 275, that the specific name, 

 " Chickara" applied the four-horned antelope by Hardwick, is 

 quite erroneous ; I have never heard that name applied to any 

 animal, except the Indian Gazelle, " Gazella Bennettii" Jerdon, 

 No. 229, page 280, either by European sportsmen or native hunters. 

 The mistake originally must have sprung from a mis- reading of or 

 a mis-print of the Hindoostanee term, " Chausiugha or Chouka," 

 four-horned, often used by native hunters for this little antelope. 



No. 65. Elliot's Antelope? 



MOUNTAIN ANTELOPE OF MADRAS SPORTSMEN. 

 I have been rather puzzled about a small antelope which my 

 friend HAWKEYE in the following account taken from the South 

 of India Observer terms " The Mountain Antelope" but I fancy 

 it is the species referred to as " Mr. Elliot's antelope" by Jerdon, 

 who says at page 274 of his book that he was at one time strongly 

 inclined to consider it distinct from the northern animal, or four 

 horned antelope, as all those procured from the Eastern Ghauts had 

 only a vestige of an anterior horn, and were very pale-colored ; 

 but in difference to Mr. Blyth's matured opinion, Jerdon has united 



