196 MAMMALIA. 
small mane along the spine ; a kind of dewlap under the neck; 
the tail terminated by a tuft. It lives in troops in the moun- 
tains north of the Cape.(1) 
i. Horns bifurcated. Awntitocarre of Ord.—Dicranoceros of Ham. 
* Smith. 
Of all the forms of hollow horns this is the most singular; acom- 
pressed fork is given off from their base or trunk, almost like the 
tine or antler of a Deer; the pointed tips curve backwards. The 
most known species is, 
A. furcifera, Ham. Smith, Lin. Trans. XIII, pl. ii; the 
Cabril of the Canadians. It inhabits the vast prairies of the 
middle and western parts of North America, where it roams in 
large herds. Its size is about that of the Roebuck; hair thick, 
undulated and reddish; the tine of the horns is about the mid- 
dle of the height.(2) 
k. Four horns.—Terrracrra, Leach. 
This subdivision, lately discovered in India, was not unknown to 
the ancients. lian speaks of it, XV, c. xiv, by the name of 
the Four-horned Oryx: the anterjor pair are before the eyes, the 
posterior completely behind the frontal. 
. chicarra, Hardw.; Lin. Trans. XIV, pl. xv; and F. Cuy. 
Mammif.(3) (The Tchicarra.) About the size of a Roebuck, 
and of an almost uniform fawn colour. The female has no 
horns. Found in the forests of Hindostan.(4) 
l. Two smooth horns. 
A. picta, and trago-camelus, Gm.; Buff. Supp. VI, pl. x and 
xi. (The Nylgau.) As large as a Stag or larger; the horns 
(1) Near the Canna should be placed the Guib, (4. scripta) Buff. XII, pl. 
xl.—The Bosch-Bock, (4. sylvatica) Buff. Supp. VI, xxv. 
(2) The 4. palmata, Smith, 1b. pl. iil, is only known to me by its horns, which 
have the antlers close to the base; perhaps they had been cut off. Some authors 
have considered these Antelopes also as the Mazames of Hernandez. 
(3) I-should remark here, in relation to the observations at page 523, Lin. 
Trans. tom. XIV, that it was not the fault of the late M. du Vaucel, that the figure 
and description of the Tehicarra were attributed to him in the Hist. des Mammif- 
His consignments were not always complete; a drawing frequently arrived without — 
any description or explanation, and his premature death prevented him from sup- 
plying what was deficient in his memoirs. 
(4) The 4. 4-cornis, Blainy., is only known to me by a cranium, the anterior 
horns of which are proportionally larger, Jour. de Phys. Aout 1815. Perhaps it 
is merely a difference arising from age, ; 
