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lege on the west, and the Teesta on the east, it is more frequent in 

 the eastern than in the western half of the tract so defined, or in 

 Nepal Proper. The female is scarcely distinguishable from the male, 

 by her somewhat inferior size, smaller horns, and rather paler co- 

 lours ; being, in every other respect, precisely like him. 



" The mature male measures, from the tip of the nose to the end 

 of the tail, fully 5 feet ; and stands upwards of 3 feet at the shoulder. 

 In his ordinary quiescent attitude all the four legs are perfectly 

 upright ; the back horizontal; the neck slightly raised and straight : 

 and we look in vain for the gracefully bowed neck of the Antelope 

 and Deer, or the taper stooping hinder limbs with which they seem 

 ever ready to bound from the earth, upon which they scarcely ap- 

 pear to tread at all. 



" The horns, in the fully grown male, are annulated more than 

 two-thirds of their whole length from the base; and in such males 

 the teriiiinal third is perfectly smooth and polished. The rings are 

 closely set, equally prominent all round, and blunt edged ; and 

 their continuity is broken by a numerous series of irregular longi- 

 tudinal grooves running from the base upwards as far as the annu- 

 lations, which they cut, and even higher. In young animals the 

 grooving extends almost to the tips of the horns ; whereas the an- 

 nulation is confined nearly, to their bases. The core of the horns 

 reaches almost to their extremities. The basal interval of the horns 

 is from |ths of an inch to |ths : the divergency at the tips, very 

 inconsiderable: the arcuation backwards, uniform and well defined. 

 The horns are quite round, short, (as short almost as the ears,) and 

 acute. 



" The ears are very large and coarse, erect, not much opened, 

 the insides well lined with long soft hair, the tips rather sharp and 

 not tufted. 



" The head is (as already noted) not inelegantly large, though 

 coarse, and expressionless ; its tapering is considerable and uniform 

 to the muzzle: the eye (for an Antelope) is poor and mean ; the 

 suborbital sinuses are quite round, small, distinct and naked ; the 

 testes goat-like, large, pendent, and hairy ; the hoofs short, firm, 

 and thick; the teeth devoid of peculiar characters ; the hair coarse, 

 bristly, straight, sparely set on, and closely applied to the skin ; 

 the entire dorsal surface of the neck, and half the shoulders, fur- 

 nished with a semi -erect, straight mane, composed of bristles rather 

 longer and stouter than those covering the rest of the body; in cha- 

 racter goat- or rather hog-like ; no mane on the pectoral surface of 

 the neck, nor any semblance of beard on the chin ; the tail short, 

 narrow, and deer-like. 



" With regard to the colours, there is, in this species, some little 

 variation independent of that caused by sex and age. The follow- 

 ing is, however, an adequate description of the mature male in this 

 respect. 



" The whole superior parts of the animal, and the neck, below as 

 well as above, are pure black : the lateral parts are black, largely 

 mixed with earthy brown red, but the latter colour prevails greatly 



