THE INDIAN ANTELOPE. 
ANTILOPE CERVICAPRA. Patt. 
Ir is a somewhat mortifying reflection that even in the 
present advanced state of zoological science we are 
obliged to confess ourselves unable to define, by means 
of any of those characters to which importance is 
usually attached, the exact limits of the most natural 
and extensive groups of which the Ruminant Order is 
composed. The teeth afford us little assistance, for 
in the great majority of these animals they are in all 
essential points the same; the organs of locomotion 
