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XXV. Remarks on the Antilope Chickara : in two Letters 

 addressed to the Secretary. Bi/ Robert Hills, Esq., F.L.S. 



Read November 6, 1827. 



Sir, Margaret Street, August 4, 1 8'27. 



I TAKE leave to offer, for the acceptance of the Linnean So- 

 ciety, two little drawings, sent herewith : they represent the 

 general appearance, with the head, on a larger scale, of a male 

 four-horned Antilope, lately arrived from India. There are in 

 the museums of the Linnean Society and Royal College of Sur- 

 geons imperfect skulls of this animal, and in ]\Ir. Brookes's 

 valuable collection another ; but this is, I believe, the first 

 living specimen ever brought to our country. It is the pro- 

 perty of Fairlie, Esq., of York Terrace, Regent's Park. 



From Sir Anthony Carlisle, at whose suggestion I made the 

 drawings, the Society will hereafter receive a communication on 

 the more interesting points of its history and habits. In the 

 interim, to give the dimensions, with a few remarks on its gene- 

 ral character, may be not altogether impertinent. 



Height at the shoulder, 23^ inches; from the apex of the 

 nose to the first pair of horns, 5 inches ; from these to the base 

 of the occiput, 5^ inches ; from the occiput to the setting-on of 

 the tail, 26 inches ; girth behind the shoulders, 24 inches ; from 

 the olecranon to the bottom of the hoof, 16^ inches ; from the 

 end of the os calcis to the bottom of the hoof, llf inches. 



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