SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



on the frontals than the preceding, the sinciput broader, 

 the parietal narrow. 



Icon. Nobis from the Royal College of Surgeons, London. 



Habitat. The East Indies. 



Sub-genus IX. — Tetracerus. Horns in the males only 

 to the number of four, the upper or true horns rising on the 

 frontal crest, straight, parallel, distant, without, or nearly 

 without wrinkles, round, smooth, black, and pointed; the 

 spurious or lower placed nearly between the orbits, conical, 

 short, smooth, or slightly wrinkled at base ; large suborbital 

 sinus ; tail short ; monogamous. India. 



844. 37. A. Chickara (the Chickara.) Adult male 

 twenty inches and a half high, two feet nine inches long ; 

 head seven inches and a half ; superior horns, black, sub- 

 ulate, round, without rings, smooth, erect, three inches long ; 

 spurious horns one inch four-tenths long, placed between, but 

 rather above the middle line of the orbits, erect, stumpy, 

 smooth; cylindrical three-fourths of an inch long; ears 

 ovate, four inches three-fourths long; tail five inches; 

 general colour bright-bay, beneath whitish ; female paler ; 

 mammae ? 



A. Chickara, Hardwick. 



Icon. Hardwick, of male and female, Trans. Lin. Soc. 



Habitat. Central India. 



845. 38. * A. Quadricornis (Four-horned Antelope.) 

 Skull seven inches long; superior horns longitudinally 

 striated, transversely striolated, with rings at their bases ; 

 the spurious horns placed before the middle line of the 

 orbits, sub-triagonal, yellowish on their inner surface, black 

 on the outer: robust, vertical, one and two-thirds of an 

 inch long, with three wrinkles at base ; the general colour 

 of the fur brownish, grayish beneath ? 



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