MAMMALIA. 53 



1. PANTHOLOPS HODGSONII. The CHIRU. 



Pale brown ; chest and inside of the limbs white ; front of face 

 and front of fore-legs blackish. 



Antilope Hodgsoni, Abel, Edin. Journ. Sci. 1827, 163; Ferussac, 

 Bull. xv. 141 ; Fischer, Syn. 462; Hodgson, P. Z. Soc. 1831, 

 i. 52; 1832, ii. 15; 1833, 110; 1834,80; 1835,3; 1836, 39. 



Antilope Chiru, Lesson, Man. Mamm. 371 ; Comp. Buffon, x. 

 285. 



Antilope (Oryx) Kemas, H. Smith, Griff, A. K. iv. 197. t., v. 

 819. 



A. Komas, Lesson, Comp. Buffon, x. 285. 



Chirsu, Ann. Philos. 40. n. 59. 



Kemas Hodgsonii, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1847, xviii. 231 ; 

 List Mam. B. M. 157 ; Cat. Osteol. Sp. B. M. 55 ; Cat. Hodg- 

 son Coll. B. M. 26; Knowsley Menag. 3; Proc. Zool. Soc 

 1850, 112. 



Pantholops Hodgsonii, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. xi. 282; Calcutta 

 Journ. N. H. iv. 290. 



Gazella Kemas, Turner, P. Z. S. 1849. 



The Chiru, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. 1832, i. 59. t. 340; 1834, iii. 

 134, x. 913. 



Hab. Thibet. 



Male. Thibet. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



OSTEOLOGY, t. 6. f. 3, 4. Hodgson, J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 



Horns, separate. Himalaya. Presented by Major Honeywood. 



Skull of male, with horns. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



A single slender horn. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Skull of male, with horns. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodg- 

 son, Esq. 



DRAWINGS. 



Drawing of male and female, t. 146. Lithograph proof by Mr. 

 F. Howard, t. 147. 



Drawing of male and female, t. 148. 



Drawing of male without inguinal gland, t. 149. 



Drawing of horns, 1. 150. 



Drawing of skull and details of head, 1. 151. 



Drawing of skull of male, t. 186. f. 7, 8. 



The Chiru inhabits the open plains of Thibet. They are gre- 

 garious, rutting in winter, gestating six months, having one at a 

 birth in summer. They are very pugnacious and jealous, and in 

 their contests often break off one of their long horns, hence the 

 rumour of Unicorns in Thibet. Hodgson, 1. c. 12; Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. nos. 2 & 27. 



