1832] Further Illustrations of the Antilope Hodgsonii. 65 



The molar teeth are only five in number, on each side of either 

 jaw*. The eight incisors of the lower jaw are unusually erect, close, 

 uniform, rounded, with broadish crowns. 



The Horns. 



feet, inch* 



Length of the horns, in a straight line 2 o 



Do. do. alo"ng the curve 2 \\ 



Basal diameter, fore and aft, 1 l-£ 



D, . , , . , > between the two lowest rings? n _ T 



o. do. side to side, } ° If- 



Basal interval 04 



9 



Terminal interval , 1 2 



The skull and horns above described are those of an old male, the 

 incisor teeth being long and full of marks, the sutures half obliterated, 

 and the crista? prominent. 



In regard to the precise form and curvature of the horns, I may ob- 

 serve, in addition to what was said in the Gleanings No. XXIII. that 

 if you lay a horn, separated from the skull, on a table, with that side 

 downwards which in the natural state faces laterally outwards, and apply 

 your hand to the base of the horn, so as to make it rest fairly on the 

 table, you will find the horn touch the table at two points ; one, the 

 base merely, the other, the space of an inch situated within four inches 

 of the tip. In other words, these two points form the ends of a long, 

 gentle, lateral curvature, the bend of which is inwards, and its utmost 

 divergency from the chord of the bow, or plane of the table, barely 

 | of an inch. 



The tip of the horn you will observe to be elevated from the table 

 about | of an inch ; which is caused by a pretty decided inflexure 

 of that part. In young animals, this lateral bend, with the incur- 

 vation of the points of the horns, is scarcely traceable : nor is it 

 other than trivial in the oldest. The great bend is the forward 

 one, which is so material, that if you lay the horn on the table 

 with that side downwards, which is the frontal surface in the 

 natural state of the animal, (the horn must be supported to make it 

 keep this position,) you will find the horn to touch the table only 

 at the very extremities, the whole of its length being carried off 

 the plane of the table in a bow, the most divergent point of which 

 rises nearly 3 inches from the table, and is situated about § of the 

 horn's length from its base. 



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* Three skulls of old animals now by me exhibit uniformly this number of 

 molars. 



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