66 MAMMALIA. 



The Pallah is common in the wooded country north of the 

 Kurrichane, where it occurs in herds equally as large as those of 

 the Spring Bok are more to the southward. It feeds on grass or 

 the more delicate twigs of the brushwood. When startled, they 

 generally move off in perfect files, and will not diverge far from 

 the course they first adopt, even to avoid a man, which renders 

 them an easy prey to the hunter who carries fire-arms. Where 

 not disturbed by hunters, they are less shy than the Spring Bok. 

 The flesh is esteemed. A. Smith. 



8. ANTILOPE. 



Horns elongate, subspiral, erect, diverging. Face tapering. 

 Nose simple. Crumen large. Skull with a small suborbital fis- 

 sure and a very large suborbital pit. The tubercles and median 

 grooves of the basioccipital bone well developed, t. 8. f. 1. 3. 



Hab. India. Gregarious. 



Cervicapra, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1847, 231, not Blainv. 



nor Sundevall; Knowsley Menag. 6; Turner, P. Z. S. 1850. 

 Antilope (Cervicapra), sp., Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816; Desm. 



Mam. 457; H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 1827 ; Gervais, Supp. 



D. S. N. i. 260; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 117. 

 Antilope (Gazellse), sp., Sundevall, Pecora, 86. 

 Strepsiceros, sp., Ruppell, Verz. Senck. 183, 1845. 



1 . ANTILOPE BEZOARTICA. The ANTELOPE or SASIN. 



Grey brown or black. Lips, orbits, chest, lower part of sides, 

 belly, edge and inside of limbs, white. Nose, front of shoulder 

 and outside of thighs, end of tail and front of feet, blackish. 

 Neck redder. Young with a narrow pale streak on the upper 

 part of sides. 



Antilope Cervicapra, Pallas, Misc. Zool. 9; Spic. i. 18. t. 1, 2. 

 xii. 19; Gmelin, S. N. i. 192. 



A. Gazella Cervicapra, Licht. Berl. Mag. vi. 172; Schreb. Saugth. 

 1214. t. 268. from Pallas. 



A. (vera) Cervicapra, Blainv. B. S. Phil. 1816, 75; Desm. Mam. 

 451; Fischer, Syn. 457. 626; F. Cuvier, Mam. Lith. t.; Ger- 

 vais, I. c. 260; H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 831 ; Gray, Illust. Ind. 

 Zool. t.; Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. x. 913; Calcutta Journ. 

 N. H. iv. 290; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, 99. 



Capra Cervicapra, Linn. S. N. i. 96. 



Strepsiceros Cervicapra, Ruppell, Verz. Senck. 183, 1845. 



Cervicapra bezoartica, Gray, List Mam. B. M. 159 ; Cat. Osteol. 

 Spec. B. M. 56 ; Cat. Hodgson Coll. B. M. 26 ; Ann. fy Mag. 

 N. H. 1847, 230; Turner, Proc. Z. Soc. 1849. 



