NYL-GHAU, OR PAINTED ANTELOPE. 63 
look at the Brahminee Bull, as well as at 
our domesticated Bulls, Cows, and Oxen; 
and you will see that the horns, in that 
genus, grow immediately above the ears, a 
position which also much resembles that of 
the horns of the Deer. But, look at the 
Antelope’s, and you will find that they stand 
half-way down the forehead !” 
“Well! that is a plain distinction in- 
deed,” said the fair Zoologists ; ‘ but how, 
then, does it happen,” added Miss Aston, 
‘that the Nyl-ghau is popularly so called in 
India; for I have heard you say, both that 
the name means a Blue, or Grey, or Blue- 
grey Cow; and, also, that you have much 
more confidence in the popular names of all 
countries, than in those of scientific writers ?” 
‘* You must understand that the word 
Ghau or Cow (for these two are in reality the 
same,) has no original meaning but the gene- 
ral one of deast; and that this general term, 
anciently, as im many cases at present, was 
equally applied to all the several kinds of 
Ox, Antelope, and Deer; so that, by the 
name Ghau or Cow, either of those animals 
might be intended. As an apposite example, 
