CORRESPONDENCE. 536 



Gond name for the Nilgai to be Goorya, wliicli is of course the same as Guraya. 

 Moreover, the Korkoo name given by Forsyth is Eoi (without any h) and 

 Ru-i is given by Jerdon as the Maliratta name. It is quite possible that the 

 use of the letter h is liable to variation in Western India as well as in Southern 

 Britain. 



There is anothei- observation to be made on the sentence quoted. My critic 

 is very severe on my nomenclature ; he says that cemas is a misspelling (it is 

 spelt according to rules for the transliteration of Greek words that have 

 prevailed for nearly 2,000 years), and that Boselaphus is a mere barbarism. 

 That Boselaphus is a hybrid term is perfectly true, but sm'ely it is a matter of 

 opinion whether such names should be rejected or not. But it is not a matter 

 of opinion, but a simple fact, that the name Povtax pktus which my critic 

 quotes as preferable, caimot possibly be used, unless, as he suggests with 

 regard to another of my nomenclatural delinquencies , "we are to give up 

 the Latin Grammar bodily," for the simple reason that Portax is undoubtedly 

 feminine. 



London, November ISth, 1892. ,AV. T. BLANEORD. 



NOTE BY THE REVIEWER. 



It is no more than fair play to admit at once that Mr. Blanford has fully 

 made out his case in res^sect of the Trans -Indus Rhinoceros ; and is entitled 

 to the honoiu-able amends hereby tendered to him. He is right in supposing 

 that the Reviewer had not Baber's Memoirs before him. After months spent 

 in endeavouring to get at an English or Turki copy in India, the verification 

 of Mr. Blanford' s Statement had to be entrusted to a correspondent in Eng- 

 land, who, in the utter absence of any reference to book, chapter, or verse, 

 missed the valuable j)assages now quoted by Mr. Blanford, and sent extracts 

 of the very unsatisfactory passage already printed in the Review. After this 

 explanation and apology it would be most ungracious to go on sparring with 

 Mr. Blanford about vernaciilar names. But his remarks upon one important 

 Latin name require notice. " Porto;" is, as he says, certainly feminine. But 

 the reference to "Portax pictus" as an "old friend" was correct, for it is so 

 printed at page 272 of Jerdon's Mammals of India, (reprint), which is 

 the authority most accessible to the main body of our readers. The Reviewer 

 had occasion to observe that Mr. Blanford (in his heading) quoted '' pidct" 

 from this very page ; and therefore ga.ye " Portax p ictus " in inverted commas 

 to indicate that he thought himself more answerable for the accuracy of his 

 quotation than for Dr. Jerdon's concords. The commas dropped out in 

 print, and as no reference to the book or the page had been given, 

 Mr. Blanf ord's comj)laint of his Reviewer's grammar was justified by the evidence 

 before liim ; in a manner amusingly analogous to the Reviewer's own miscon- 

 ception already disposed of. That leaves things "pretty square"; but the 



