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trial of speed the jackalls would not have had a chance. I thiiik 

 that about 10 inches is the usual length of the horns of the males. 

 The longest I have seen were a little under 13 inches^ I do not 

 think that I have ever seen the horns of the females more than 5 

 inches in length ; they are generally much less than this, and I have 

 on several occasions remarked that they were somewhat deformed 

 one larger than the other, or stunted, or cracked. 



With reference to the following remark at page 276 of Jerdoii 

 who says that, the horns of the common antelope vary much in the 

 size of the rings, in the spiral twist, and in divergence, and that 

 " Three instances of females with horns are now on record. They 

 " were however thin and much curved, gyring round like those of 

 " Ovis ammon. One buck is also mentioned in which one of the 

 " horns curved round, and Blyth suggested that the testis of that 

 " side had probably been injured." I should in the proper place 

 have mentioned that, at the palace of the Rajah of Chicarry in 

 Bundlekund, vide my notes on the hunting leopard at page 39, 

 three, or four, castrated buck antelopes were pointed out to me, all 

 with horns, much resembling those described by Jerdon. I was 

 told that there was a female with horns much like those at the 

 palace, but I did not see her. 



The name of " Goat Antelope" given to this gazelle by our Madras 

 sportsmen, gives I think, a better idea of its shape than " ravine 

 deer." The animal from its general appearance and peculiar tail is 

 by no means unlike a half-grown goat. Why naturalists should 

 have termed, No. 227 of Jerdon, page 274, the four-horned ante- 

 lope " Chickara" I cannot imagine : for I have never heard that 

 name applied to any animal but this gazelle ; unless the word be 

 a misreading, or a misprint for the Hindoostani term " chow singha^ 

 or " chouka" four-horned, which some Indian sportsmen may have 

 intended to represent the proper animal, i. e., the four-horned 

 antelope. Jerdon, No. 227, page 274, or No. 65, page 1 30 of 

 these notes, but which in writing and perhaps in the confusion of 

 names between " Jungle Sheep," for the four-horned antelope and 

 " Goat Antelope," for the gazelle may have led even so excellent 

 an authority as Hardwicke, astray in his nomenclature in thi* 

 instance- 



