WILD BEASTS AND 
THEIR WAYS. 
A series of articles on popular Zoology. 
By Sir Harry JoHNston, G.C.M.G. 
II—ANTELOPES (PART IT) 
Illustrated with original drawings, paintings, and 
photographs by the Author and others. 
ane conclude my review of the Gazelles: 
the swelling of the nasal cartilage 
exists laterally im another remarkable 
aberrant gazelle—the Chiru (Pantholops). 
The Pantholops is an inhabitant of Tibet. 
It is of considerable size and more typically 
gazelline in build than the Saiga, to which 
it is, however, most nearly related. The 
horns, present only in the male, are very 
long (often over two feet in length). They 
rise very nearly uprightly from above the 
orbits, but have a graceful backwards and 
forwards sweep. The hair is thick and 
woolly, as is natural to its habitat (the 
Sa zi aT RR extremely cold Tibetan plateaux). There 
HEAD OF WATERBUCK (Cobus defassa). are something like the gazelline dark 
markings on the face and the outer edges 
of the limbs. The sides of the nose and muzzle are very swollen and inflated. 
The Chiru is also im all probability allied in origin to another isolated and 
aberrant type—the Blackbuck or Indian Antelope (Antilope), the scientific name of 
which, a Greek word, is the origin of the term antelope. In this animal the 
gazelline markings about the face have run together, so to speak, till the whole of 
the face is black (Qn the males) or brown (in the females), leaving a large white 
circle round the eyes, ears, and muzzle. The neck and upper parts of the body and 
outer aspects of the limbs are black and brownish yellow in the male and golden- 
brown in the female, leaving the lower part of the throat, brisket, belly, rump, and 
under sides of the limbs snowy white. The most extraordinary feature, however, in 
the blackbuck is its long and twisted horns (in the male only). Occasionally the 
female Indian antelope or the castrated male grows horns of an abnormal and no 
doubt more primitive type. These sometimes curve downwards lke a ram’s, and are 
but slightly spiral. On the whole it would seem as though in its horns the blackbuck 
is most nearly allied to the chiru. Its horns early in their evolution grew no doubt 
to great length and then assumed a spiral form—a tendency which crops out again 
in the goats and sheep, in one of the Orygine antelopes, and in the very distinct sub- 
family of the tragelaphs. The horns of the Indian antelope, like those of the saiga, 
are also remarkable from the fact that they are ringed almost to their tips. Nearly 
all other antelopes have a smooth space towards the ends of the horns. 
Allusion has already been made to the Bahra antelope (Dorcotragus) of Somaliland as 
being a somewhat puzzling type which may perhaps be classed as an offshoot from the 
gazelles at an earlier stage of their descent. The coloration of the face recalls the Indian 
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