502 Mr. Hills on the Antilope C/iickara. 



The general hue is a fulvous brown, which however will pro- 

 bablj^ as in the Stag, become duller at the approach of winter. 

 Along the vertebral line the colour is rather darker ; it is lighter 

 and neutralized on the insides of the limbs*, which are pied of 

 the general colour and white. The upper part of the rostrum 

 is of a brown chocolate, which gradually, as it approaches the 

 nostrils, melts into their colour,' — a deep purplish gray. Along 

 the margin and side of the nether jaw, from symphysis to ramus, 

 white. The throat, breast, and abdomen, a low-toned, and, in 

 parts, yellowish-white. In form and colour the ear closely 

 resembles that of the fallow-coloiired specimen of the common 

 Cerviis palmatiis. Eye large and prominent, and the pupil very 

 large even when exposed to a strong light. 



In most of the Deer tribe, in the Ox, Sheep, Goat, and also in 

 every other Antilope that I have seen, the lubricous character 

 of the apex and aire of the nose comes in pretty contrast with 

 the hair-clad parts that surround them and form the muzzle ; 

 but in this creature the covering of the facial ridge, from a little 

 below the first pair of horns, becomes shorter and shorter so gra- 

 dually, that there is no such line of termination. The nostrils 

 are small, and more perpendicularly placed than in any of the 

 animals just alluded to. These points, and the tumidulous ap- 

 pearance of the flap that protects the sub-, or, as I should rather 

 call it, ante-oc\\\i\r sinus, give a less agreeable aspect to the 

 head, when viewed in front, than it has in profile. 



The following is, though perhaps unsatisfactory, the best 

 description I can give of the horns : — Length of the first or 

 smallest pair, !}■ inch, slightly recurvate towards their tips; 

 length of the second pair, 3^- inches, irregular, wavy protended 

 cones, obtusely pointed ; in a trifling degree concave anteriorly, 



* This is so common a circumstance among all quadrupeds, that it may seem 

 scarcely worth mention. 



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