MAMMALIA. Ill 



2. CAPRICORNIS BUBALINA. The THAAR or THAR. 



Grey brown, blackish washed. Crown and dorsal streak black. 

 Thighs and outside of legs rufous. Nose, chin, inside of ears, 

 lower part of mane, and legs below the hocks, whitish. 



Capricornis Thar, Ogilby, Proc. Zool Soc. 1836, 139. 

 Antilope Bubalina, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, ii. 12. 

 Kemas proclivis vel Thar, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. x. 913 ; Calcutta 



Journ. N. H. iv. 291. 

 Antilope Thar, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1833, iii. 105; 1834, 99; 



Journ. Asiat. Soc. Eeng. i. 346; iv. 1835, 889. 

 Oryx? Thar, Riippell, Verz. Senck. 180. 

 Nsemorhedus Thar, Hodgson, Proc. Z. Soc. 1834, 36; Journ. A. 



S. B. iv. 1835, 489. 

 Kemas Thar, Hodgson. 



Nsemorhedus proclivis, Hodgson, Zool. Nepal ined. B. M. t. 

 Capricornis bubalina, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 166 ; Cat. Osteol. 



Sp. B. M. 57; Cat. Hodgson Coll. B. M. 27; Ann. fy Mag. 



N. H. 1846, 232; Knowsley Menag. 18; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1849, 135. 



Nemorhsedus Bubalina, Turner, P. Z. S. 1848. 

 Hab. India; Nepal. 



Male and female. Nepal. 



Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Frontal bone and horns. Nepal. 



Frontal bone and horns. Nepal. 



Skull, male. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Skull, female. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Horns. Nepal. Mr. Argent's Collection. 



ICON. 



Drawing of male. Hodgson, Icon. ined. B. M. t. 160. f. 1. 

 Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Drawing of male and female. Hodgson, Icon. ined. B. M. 

 t. 161. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Drawing of head. Hodgson, Icon. ined. B. M. t. 163, 164. 

 Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Drawing of skull. Hodgson, Icon. ined. B. M. t. 187- f. 5, 6. 

 Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



A head was sent to the United Service Museum by Lieut. - 

 Colonel Childers, of the llth Dragoons, in 1820, under the name 

 of Serow or Imo. " It is not speedy, as might be inferred from 

 its make. Its flesh is very coarse and bad. It is usually killed 

 with poisoned arrows." Hodgson, I. c. 14. 



