" character ; it at least remained so for the four years I kept a pair 

 " in my possession, and within which period they bred ; two young 

 " ones were produced at the same birth, one a male, the other a 

 " female ; and the distinction of color as above was conspicuous at 

 " that early stage and continued. 



" The male in the rutting season becomes exceedingly wild and 

 " mischievous, and, although partly domesticated, continues danger- 

 " ously so, running at every animal within its reach, whether deer, 

 " goat, or man. Even the feeder could only approach him on the 

 " verge of the circle to which the rope he was tied with allowed 

 " him to reach." 



" Major General Hardwicke had originally described this species 

 " under the name of A. quadricornis ; but M. Desmares? having 

 " described a species under that name, from a skull in the museum 

 " of the Royal College of Surgeons, which appears to differ from 

 " General Harkwicke's species in having the anterior or short horns 

 " triangular, it has been judged advis.ible to distinguish the species 

 " now described by the name of A. Chickara. 



" Dr. Leach has formed a new genus of the four-horned antelopes 

 " under the name of Tetraceros. 



" The above from Linnaean Transactions, vol. XIV. 

 " The following is Elliot's description from the Madras Journal, 

 " vol. X, pages 225 and 226. 



" 56. ANTILOPE SUB. 4, CORNUTUS ? 



" New species ? Antelope Chickara, Hardwicke, Brown Antelope, 

 " Sykes. 



No- 66 Sykes- 



" KONDIGURI CANARESE, JUNGLT-BUKRA, DEKHANI. 

 " It is not improbable that the Chickara (a name by the way most 

 " incorrectly applied to this species, being restricted by all natives 

 " to the preceding one) the Quadricornis of Blainville, and the 

 " Striaticornis of Leach, all refer to the same animal. But the 

 " descriptions being only from isolated individuals, have not been 

 " sufficiently discriminated. The detailed description of General 



