Tetracerus chick ara. LKACH. 

 PLATE XXXI. 



Antilope chickara, Hardwicke, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. p, 

 620 Tetracerus chickara, Major Smith^ Griffith's C- 

 vier, iv. p. 254. 



THIS animal is about twenty inches and a half in 

 height at the shoulder, and about thirty-three inches 

 in length. The horns are black and perfectly smooth, 

 and about three inches in length ; in front of these 

 the true horns, between the eyes, arise other two 

 horns, about three quarters of an inch in length, and 

 an inch and a half in circumference at the base, thence 

 suddenly tapering to a point. The general colour of 

 the animal is an uniform bright bay ; on all the upper 

 parts, and on the chin, the under line of the neck, 

 the abdomen, the inner sides of the thighs, and under 

 the tail, are inclined to white, more or less mixed with 

 sandy coloured hairs. The female is lighter, and 

 without horns. 



These animals were kept in confinement by Ge- 

 neral Hardwicke, and produced young in his posses- 

 sion, two at a birth, a male and female. 



The male, in the rutting season, becomes exceed- 



