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p. 154, 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 345, 

 1891 ; Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 345, 1891 ; 

 Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 145, 1893, Game Animals of 

 India, etc. p. 164, 1907, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 27, 

 1913 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 93, 

 pi. Ixxxvii, 1900 ; Bentham, Cat. Asiat. Horns Ind. Mus. p. 44, 

 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 303, 1910, ed. 7, 

 p. 301, 1914; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 926; Dodsworth, 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxii, p. 747, 1914. 



NILGAI. 



Typical locality plains of Peninsular India ; to which 

 area the species is restricted, the range not including the 

 trans-Indus districts, Eastern Bengal, or Malabar. 



Shoulder-height about 4 feet 6 inches. 



General colour iron-grey, tending to black on nose, 

 cheeks, and neck, and to whitish grey above eyes ; generally 

 two spots on each cheek, lips, chin, and under surface of 

 lower jaw, a gorget on throat, inner sides and backs of hains, 

 a patch in region of groin, sides and under surface of tail, 

 and two pairs of spots on pasterns above hoofs white, the 

 upper hind spots sometimes forming a half -ring ; ears greyish 

 white, with a pair of black spots on outer edge in front ; 

 under-parts, with the exception of the region of the groin 

 and a narrow median streak, and greater part of limbs, 

 together with a tuft of long hair on throat, black ; neck with 

 a short black and white mane, terminating in a whorl on 

 withers, behind which it is continued as a black spinal crest, 

 gradually decreasing in height towards tail. Female smaller 

 and slighter, with the iron-grey and black areas of male 

 replaced by tawny fawn. 



Fine horns measure from 8 to 10 (in one instance) inches 

 in length, with a basal girth of from 6 J to 9 J, and a tip-to-tip 

 interval ranging from 3 to 8 inches. 



648, a. Skin, mounted. India. Purchased ( Warwick). 



648, a 1 . Skull, with horns. India. Figured in Gray's 

 Cat. Ungulata, p. 141, fig. 2. Purchased, before 1852. 



47. 5. 17. 20 (648, a). Skin, young. India. 



Purchased (Zoological Society), 1847. 



50. 11. 22. 168 (648, b). Skeleton. India. 



Purchased (Zoological Society), 1850. 



648, c. Skull, with horns, immature. India. 



Purchased, about 1850. 

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