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of the tail, a streak down the buttocks, and a ring above and below each 

 fetlock, are white. Height at shoulder from 4 feet 4 inches to 4 feet 

 8 inches. Mr. A. O. Hume shot a specimen in the Aligurh district 

 in 1855 whose horns measured 1 1 f- along the front curve, and had 

 a circumference of 9.5. They were unfortunately destroyed in the 

 Mutiny. 



Distribution. The peninsula of India, from the foot of the Himalaya 

 to the south of Mysore ; common in parts of the Eastern Punjab, 

 the North-West Provinces, Guzerat, and the Central Provinces. 



Length on Circum- ,. .. -,. 

 front. ference. Tl P to Tl P' 



Locality. 



64 

 64 



7i 

 5 



Nimar, Cent. Prov. 



Terai . 



Owner. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 



Major G. F. Mockler. 



J. Whitaker. 

 . Capt. E. R. Gordon. 



British Museum. 



A. O. Hume. 

 . C. D. Twopeny. 

 . Lieut. -Col. J. M. Fawcett. 



Indian Museum. 

 . Capt. E. H> R. Hibbert. 



The late Marquis of Dufferin and 



Ava. 

 Dublin Museum. 



Count J. Potocki. 

 Sir Victor Brooke's Collection. 

 Viscount Edmond de Poncins. 

 Lieut. -Col. L. L. Fenton. 

 H.H. the Maharaja of Bikanir. 



British Museum (Hume Collec- 

 tion). 

 . Lieut. -Col. H. Wade-Dalton. 



P. Niedieck. 

 . Capt. E. B. Cook. 



