CATALOGUE. 169 



Genus BOSEPHALUS, Ham. Smith. 

 ACRONOTUS, Ham. Smith. 



239. BOSEPHALUS CAAMA, Cm. Sp. t Regne Animal, 

 2nd ed. p. 269. 



Antilope caama, Cuv. I. cit. 



Acronota caama, Ham. Smith, G. A. K. 



Le Caama, Cuvier. 



HAB. Southern Africa. 



A. Horns, presented by General T. Hardwicke. 



Genus PROCAPRA, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XV. p. 334. 



240. PRO.CAPRA PICTICAUDA, Hodgson. 



RAGOA and GOA, of the Tibetans, Hodgson. 

 HAB. Tibet. Observed in Ladak by Capt. R. Strachey. 

 A. From Capt. R. Strachey's Collection. 



In the Journal of the Asiatic Society above cited, Mr. Hodgson gives 

 the following specific character of this new species of Antelope : " Goat 

 antelope, with medial elliptic black horns, inserted between the orbits, 

 and directed upwards and backwards with a bold curve and slight 

 divergency ; the tips being again recurved forwards, but not inwards, 

 annulated nearly to the tips : the rings being complete, separate, and 

 25 to 27 in number; short, deep head, finely attenuated ; large eyes ; 

 long, pointed and striated ears : very short, depressed, triangular tail ; 

 and long delicate limbs. Pelage consisting of hair only, of medial 

 uniform length and fineness, varying with the seasons like the colour. 

 Above sordid brown (' in summer ;' 'in winter, canescent slaty, 

 smeared on the pale surface with fawn. Internally, the hairs slaty- 

 blue '), tipt with pale rufous; below, with the lining of the ears, the 

 entire limbs almost, and a small caudal disc, rufescent-white : no 

 marks whatever ; no tufts to knees ; tail, black. Length, from nose 

 to anus, about three and a half feet. Height about two feet. Horns, 

 along the curve, thirteen inches ; straight, eleven inches. Habitat, the 

 plains of Tibet, amid ravines and low bare hills : not gregarious." 

 (Hodgson, J. A. S. B. loc. cit.) 



z 



