ANTILOPE. 521 



Habits. This species differs from all other Indian antelopes in 

 habits as much as in structure. It is not gregarious, very rarely 

 are more than two seen together ; it haunts thin forest and bush, 

 and keeps chiefly to undulating or hilly ground. It drinks daily, 

 and is never seen far from water. It is a shy animal, and moves 

 with a peculiar jerky action, whether walking or running. The 

 rutting-season is in the rains, and the young, one or two in number, 

 are born about January or February, the period of gestation being, 

 according to Hodgson, six months. The placentation has been 

 described by Mr. Weldon (P. Z. S. 1884, p. 2). The present 

 species, according to Elliot, has the habit of depositing its dung 

 repeatedly in one spot. This does not agree with my experience. 



The name Chinkara has been applied to this animal in error. 

 The flesh is said to be dry, but I have often eaten it and found it 

 better than that of most Indian deer, though not equal to antelope 

 or gazelle. When taken young this antelope is easily tatned. 



Genus ANTILOPE, Pallas (1767). 



Size moderate. Tail short, compressed. Large suborbital 

 glands with a linear opening. Interdigital glands large in all feet. 

 Inguinal glands large. No muffle, Mammas 2. Hoofs pointed. 

 A tuft of long hair on each knee (carpus). 



Skull with prominent orbits ; the frontal profile rounded off into 

 the parietal, which meets the occipital at an obtuse angle. Supra- 

 orbital foramina of frontals large, a small lachrymal fissure and 

 large lachrymal fossa. Horns in the male only, arising near 

 together, cylindrical, spiral, diverging, ringed throughout, the 

 rings subdistant, closer together near the skull, blunt, extending 

 all round the horns. 



A single species peculiar to India. The horn-cores are found 

 fossil in the Pleistocene Jumna beds. 



357. Antilope cervicapra. The Indian Antelope or black Buck. 



Capra cervicapra, L. Syst. Nat. i, p. 96 (1766). 



Antilope cervicapra, Pallas, Spic. Zool. i, p. 19, pis. i, ii (1767) ; Gray 

 # Hardw. III. Ind. Zool. i, pis. xii, xiii ; Bennett, P. Z. S. 1836, 

 p. 34; Elliot, Mad. Jour. L. S. x, p. 222; Hutton, J. A. S. B. XT, 

 p. 150 ; Stanford, J. A. 8. B. xliv, pt. 2, p. 18 ; Ball, P. A. S. B. 

 1877, p. 171 ; W. Sclater, Cat. p. 162. 



Antilope bezoartica, Gray, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 117; Blyth, Cat. p. 171; 

 Jerdon, Mam. p. 275 ; Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxxvi, pt. 2, p. 196 ; 

 Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 229. 



Ena c? , Harina, Mirga, Sanscr. ; Haran, Harna $ , Harm $ , Kalwit 

 9. , Mria, H. ; Kala <$ , Goria 9 , Tirhoot ; Kdlsar rf , Baoti ? , Behar ; 



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Jiureta, 

 Bddu, 

 Kutsar, 

 Hule-kara, Can. 



The horns vary in divergence and in closeness of spiral ; in some 



