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horns ; annuli crowded and vague, especially towards the bases, 

 somewhat interrupted by faint longitudinal striae, truncated, inde- 

 pendant of each other, and equally developed all round ; no suborbital 

 sinuses, a half muzzle ; upper lip clad, tail conico-depiessed, and 

 only half nude below ; fur of two sorts, abundant and loosely applied 

 to the skin ; a short, semi-erect mane on the vertex. Knees usually 

 callous and nude, but not congenitally so ; colours of the animal rusty 

 and brown, paler below ; line of the vertex, tail, chest, and a stripe 

 down the front of the fore legs and back of the hind, brown black ; 

 outsides of ears rusty, lips and chin rufescent white, a large patch of 

 pure white at the junction of the head and neck, below ; horns, hoofs, 

 and muzzle, black ; iris, dark hazel ; eye, mean. Inhabits juxta Hima- 

 layan region of Nipal. Female smaller and paler hued ; young, redder 

 and no marks or mane. 



Sp. 4. A. Tha'r, nobis. The Thar of the Nipalese. New. Charac- 

 ters less decidedly caprine than in the last, very nearly allied 

 to the Cambing Ootan. Back straight, withers higher than the 

 croup, and structure suited for heavy climbing, not for leaping ; limbs 

 very stout and rigid, with higher hoofs than in the last, the edges of 

 which are raised above the pads. General form of the scull cervine, 

 with the ridge line moderately convexed, and the parietes not depressed 

 at a sh'ong angle to the frontal bones. A deep indentation before the 

 orbits. Horns posterior to orbits, but below the crest of frontals, eight 

 inches long, rather stouter and less falcated, than in the preceding, 

 sub-divergent, with the points inclined outwards, 20 to 30 crowded 

 annuli, extending |rds up the horns, the annuli truncated, equal all 

 round, independant, broken by decided longitudinal striae ; one inch 

 below the eye, a suborbital sinus, opening on a nude space by a round 

 puncture, and furnished with a fleshy thick gland secreting a viscous 

 humour, as in Sumatrensis ; no maxillary sinus, a half muzzle ; larger 

 than in the preceding, but existing only as a broad line in front of 

 the upper lip, which is otherwise clad in hair. Tail shorter, depressed 

 nude below ; fur of one sort only, scanty, harsh, and applied to the skin ; 

 a semi erect-mane, as in Ghoral ; knees, callous, perhaps congenitally 

 so. Sternum not so, size large, 64 inches long by 38 high, and upwards 

 of 200 lbs. in weight. Colour of the whole animal " above, with the 

 entire head and neck, jet black ; on the flanks, mixed with deep clay 

 red. The fore arms and hams outside, as far down as the great 

 flexures, clay red, nearly or wholly unmixed ; rest of the limbs, hoary, 

 or rufescent hoary ; outsides of ears, dark ; chest, pale. No stripes down 

 legs ; lips and chin dull hoary, and a stripe of pure hoary running 



