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In the paper before noticed, General Hardwicke expresses 

 a doubt that the head here described is not of the same 

 species with the Chickara, and we are inclined to the same 

 opinion, especially since the drawing of a four-horned an- 

 telope was published by M. F. Cuvier, communicated to 

 him by the late M. Duvaucel, who, it appears, represents 

 the species as belonging to Nepaul. In this figure, of 

 which we were enabled to make a copy through the kind- 

 ness of M. Cuvier, the superior horns are slightly annulated, 

 whereas in the Chickara they are perfectly smooth ; the 

 animal is also more elevated on the legs, and the colour of 

 the back is brownish ; the ears are larger, with three faint 

 streaks within them ; the spurious horns stand before the 

 middle of the line between the orbits, and not behind that 

 line, as in the Chickara, and the suborbital sinus termi- 

 nates in a round opening, and not in a slit like the other ; 

 the under jaw is white, and the tail longer. It may, there- 

 fore, be presumed, that the Duvaucelian figure represents 

 the Quadricornis, in which the more advanced position of 

 the spurious horns is very evident ; nor can we assent to 

 the conclusions in the note at the end of General Hard- 

 wicke's communication to the Linnsean Society, that the figure 

 in question is copied from his specimen, because we have 

 been allowed by M. F. Cuvier to copy several other draw- 

 ings of ruminants, forwarded by that gentleman from 

 India, some of which will be noticed in the sequel, including 

 specimens from Nepaul. We think these observations due 

 to the memory of M. Duvaucel, whose zeal in pursuit of 

 natural history has led to a premature death *. 



* Dr. Leach has favoured us with a note respecting his Tetra- 

 cerus Striaticornis, in which he expressly states, " Horns longitu- 

 dinally striated, transversely striolated, with rings at their bases." 

 This character appears to agree with M. Duvaucel's Chickara, or 

 our Quadricornis, and supplies the characters deficient in the 

 skull above noticed. 



