28 CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



THE CHIRU, OR TIBETAN ANTELOPE. 



PANTHOLOPS HODGSONI. 



Antilope hodgsoni, Abel, Calcutta Govt. Gazette, vide Phil. Mag. 



vol. Ixviii, p. 234, 1826, Edinburgh Journ. Sci. vol. vii, p. 164, 



1827. 

 Pantholops hodgsoni, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 80, Journ. 



Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xi, p. 282, 1842, Calcutta Journ. Nat. 



Hist. vol. iv, p. 291, 1844; Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. 



p. 52, 1852 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 524, 1891 ; 



Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 45, pi. ii, 1897 ; 



Lydekker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 184, 1907 ; Ward, 



Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 233, 1910 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1910, p. 898. 



This species, the sole representative of its genus, is 

 remarkable for having only two pairs of premolars in 

 each jaw. 



63. 12. 10. 31. 20. Skull and horns. North of Beansi 

 Pass, Kumaon ; collected by Mr. Norman Troup. This 

 specimen stands No. 1 in Mr. Ward's list. Length of 

 horns 27f, girth 6 J, tip-to-tip interval 13 J inches. 



64. 12. 10. 31. 21. Skull and horns. Same locality and 

 collector. No. 3 in Mr. Ward's list. Length of horns 27-J, 

 girth 5, tip-to-tip interval 15J. 



65. 12. 10. 31. 22. Skull and horns. Same locality 

 and collector. 



THE BLACKBUCK, OR INDIAN ANTELOPE. 



ANTILOPE CERVICAPRA. 



Capra cervicapra, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 17, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 96, 1766. 



Antilope cervicapra, Pallas, Misc. Zool., p. 9, 1766; Spicil. Zool. 

 fasc. viii, p. 18, 1767, vol. xii, p. 19, 1777; Blanford, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Mamm. p. 591, 1891 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book 

 of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 5, pi. xlviii, 1897; Lydekker, Game 

 Animals of India, etc. p. 175, 1907; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 235, 1910 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 894. 



Cervicapra bezoartica, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 159, 1843. 



Antilope bezoartica, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 117, Cat. Ungu- 

 lata Brit. Mus. p. 66, 1852 ; Jerdon, Mamm. India, p. 275, 1867. 



66. 12. 10. 31. 18. Skull and horns (fig. 12). Gurgaon, 

 near Delhi. In this beautiful head, which stands No. 3 

 in Mr. Ward's list, the horns measure 28J inches in a 



