THE INDIAN ANTELOPE. 
ANTILOPE CERVICAPRA. Patt. 
In the elegant symmetry of their form and the light 
and graceful agility of their motions, the Antelopes are 
superior even to the Deer, whom, however, they closely 
resemble, not merely in outward shape, but also in 
internal structure. Like them, in addition to the coin- 
cidence of a slightly made and beautifully proportioned 
figure, they are frequently furnished with a naked 
muzzle, and with the same remarkable sinus beneath 
the inner angle of the eye; and their ears are generally 
of considerable size, erect, and pointed. But they are 
strikingly distinguished from them and from all the 
other animals of the order by the peculiar character of 
