280 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



hairs, and long, slender, and black eyelashes ; the ears 

 large, five inches in length, ovate, erect; hairs within 

 white ; the neck proportionally long ; body roundish ; the 

 back a little arched, having the appearance, without the 

 reality, of being higher at the rump, but shewing the na- 

 tural position of the animal ever prepared to leap ; from 

 the rump to the tail the croup is much sloped ; the legs are 

 slender, well formed ; the hoofs black ; the tail slender, 

 tapering, about four inches long ; the general colour is 

 the gray-mouse (almost white about the lower part of 

 the neck and throat), and darker, with the hair longer 

 upon the upper part of the neck and back, inclining to fer- 

 ruginous about the legs. The female differs but little ; has 

 no horns, but in their place appear two prominent tuber- 

 cles covered with a tuft of dark brown hair. 



A pair were presented by the Court of Katmandoo to the 

 resident, the Honourable E. Gardner, and the male lived 

 in the Governor-general's Menagerie at Barrackpore. It is 

 a native of the Himalaya range, and mountains of the 

 Nepaul frontier, and considered by the natives as the most 

 active of the Antelope genus. It is seen in numerous herds, 

 shy and rarely taken, excepting by stratagem. If pursued, 

 they disperse and fly to precipices and places to which no 

 dogs can follow them. General Hardwicke, from whose 

 description this account is extracted, states, in proof of its 

 agility, shewn within a space of about ten feet square, en- 

 closed by stakes eight or nine feet high, that the animal 

 attempted to spring over, and at every leap so nearly ef- 

 fected its purpose, as to appear in imminent danger of 

 being staked. Its flesh is considered as delicate venison. 

 We possess a drawing, probably of the same individual, 

 under the name of the Bouquetin, or Ibex of Nepaul, for 

 which we are indebted to the kindness of M. F. Cuvier, 

 who received it with others before noticed. In the drawing 

 we find the ears marked with the usual strise, and the chin, 



