520 BOTiD.f:, 



Tetracerus cliickara, qiiadricornis, subquadricornutus, iodes, and 

 paccerois, Hodgson, C'alc. Jour. iV. H. viii, pp. 89, 90 (1847) ; id. 

 J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 695. 

 Tetracerus subquadricornutus, Grmj, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 117; Scla/er, 

 R Z. S. 1875, p. 527. 

 ChousinffhitjC/ioulri, Doda, 11.; 7?e«7c/r<, Mabr. ; Bhokra, P/iokra,(h\7A\; 

 BMrld, at"Saugor; BJiir, Gond; Bhirul, Bbeel : AVwr/, C'butia Na<rpur; 

 Kurus, Gouds of Bastar ; Konda-r/ori, Tel, ; Kondijuri, Kaulla-kuri, Can. : 

 commonly in the Ueccan Jrmgli bakri. 



Fur thin, harsh, and short. Tail above with longer hair than 

 on the body. 



Colour dull pale brown, with a more or less rufous tinge above, 

 passing gradually on the sides and limbs into the white of the 

 lower parts. A dark stripe down the front of eacli leg, broadest 

 on the fore limbs : muzzle and ears outside also dark. A dark 

 stripe down the back in some specimens, probably young. 



Dimmsions. Height of a male at shoulder 25| inches, at croup 

 27 ; length from muzzle to rump 42, tail (? without hair) 5, ear 45. 

 A\^eight 43 lb. Females are rather smaller. Basal length of a 

 large male skull fi-5, orbital breadth 3-2. The posterior horns are 

 usually 3 to 4 inches long, tlie anterior 1 to I7 ; maximum recorded 

 lengths 4-5 and 2-5. 



Distribution. Along the base of the Himalayas from the Punjab 

 to Nepal, and probably in most parts of the Peninsula where the 

 country is wooded and hilly, but not in dense jungle. The four- 

 horned antelope is not found in the Gangetic plain nor on the 

 Malabar coast in the Madras Presidency. It is said by Mr. Murray 

 to be found in Sind ; it is common in the wooded parts of 

 Eajputana, throughout the Bombay Presidency, the Central 

 Provinces, and the northern parts of Madras, less abundant 

 to the eastward in Chhattisgarh, Chutia Nagpur, Bengal, and 

 Orissa, and to the southward in Mysore, but it occurs in the latter 

 State occasionally, and has been observed on the Nilgiri and Palni 

 hills. It is unknown in Ceylon and east of the Bay of Bengal. 

 In jungle this species and hog-deer (CtTi'^s pomHits) may easily 

 be mistaken the one for the other, and some recorded localities of 

 the latter may be due to this circumstance. 



Varieties. In the Madras Presidency the anterior horns are said 

 to be but rarely developed, and certainly fully adult animals 

 occur without any, and with only small projections on the 

 skull. But I can see no other difference ; the skulls, whether the 

 anterior horns are developed or not, are precisely similar in form 

 and scarcely differ in size. In the case of a male that I obtained 

 young ill Nimar and that was kept alive by a friend in Bombay, 

 the anterior horns did not appear till the third year, although tiie 

 posterior horns were well developed early in the second. Doulitless 

 many of the two-horned individuals seen are young. l^lyth 

 (J. A. S. B. xvii, p. 5(50) came to the conclusion that the two- 

 horned form is merely a variety ; and after reading all that has 

 been written by McMaster and Stcnulali' on ilH> siibjcil. I agree 

 with him. 



