222 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Mus. p. 27, 1913 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, 

 vol. i, p. 215, pi. xxiv, 1895; Bentham, Cat. Asiat. Horns 

 Ind. Mus. p. 46, 1908; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 

 p. 302, 1910, ed. 7, p. 300, 1914 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, 

 p. 921; Wroughton, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxi, 

 pp. 825 and 1194, 1912 ; Dodsworth, ibid. vol. xxii, p. 747, 1914. 



Tetraceros iodes and paccerois, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 vol. viii, p. 90, 1847. 

 Including : 



Antilope sub-4-cornutus, Elliot, Madras Journal, vol. x, p. 225, 

 pi. iv, fig. 2, 1839. 



Tetraceros subquadricornis, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 159, 

 1843 ; Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 170. 



Tetraceros subquadricornutus, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 vol. viii, p. 89, 1847 ; Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 70, 1850, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 117, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 70, 

 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 19, 1872, Hand-List Rumi- 

 nants Brit. Mus. p. 89, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 225, 1862; Fitzinger, Sitzber. 7c. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. lix, pt. i, p. 170, 1869; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, 

 p. 527 ; Garrod, ibid. 1877, p. 4. 



Tetraceros quadricornis typicus, Sclater and Thomas, Boole of 

 Antelopes, vol. i, p. 215, 1895. 



CHOUSINGHA; FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPE. 



Typical locality the plains of Peninsular India, to which 

 area the species is restricted. 



Size small and build delicate; shoulder-height about 

 25 inches. General colour dull rufous brown, passing, with- 

 out a sharp line of demarcation, into whitish on under-parts ; 

 muzzle, backs of ears and a line down front of limbs blackish 

 brown ; fronts and sides of pasterns whitish, and occasionally 

 a pair of whitish spots on each cheek. Basal length of skull 

 6 J inches, maximum width 2J, interval between muzzle and 

 orbit 3J- inches. Fine specimens of the posterior pair of 

 horns measure from 3 j to 4J inches in length, and there is 

 one example stated to measure 5 inches. In three examples 

 with posterior horns of 4J inches, the respective measure- 

 ments of the front horns are 2J, 2 J, and 2 j inches. 



37. 6. 10. 68 (628, a). Frontlet and horns. Guna. 



Presented ly Col. J. Evans, 1837. 

 628,5. Frontlet and horns. Same locality. Same history. 



38. 10. 29. 24 (628, d). Imperfect skull, with horns. 

 India. Presented ly J. A. Reeve, Esq., 1838. 



43. 1. 12. 86. Skull, with horns, and akin. Northern 

 India Presented ly B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 1843. 



