28 CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



THE CHIRU, OR TIBETAN ANTELOPE. 



PaNTHOLOPS HODCiSONI. 



Antilope hodgsoni, Ahel, Calcutta Govt. Gazette, viie-Phil. Mag. 



vol. Ixviii, p. 234, 1826, Edinburgh Journ. Sci. vol. vii, p. 164, 



1827. 

 Pantholops hodgsoni, Hodgson, Proa. Zool. 8oc. 1834, p. 80, Journ. 



Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xi, p. 282, 1842, Calcutta Journ. Nat. 



Hist. vol. iv, p. 291, 1844; Gra?/, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. 



p. 52, 1852 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 524, 1891 ; 



Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 45, pi. ii, 1897 ; 



Lydehker, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 184, 1907 ; Ward, 



Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 233, 1910 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1910, p. 898. 



This species, the sole representative of its genus, is 

 remarkable for having only two pairs of premolars in 

 each jaw. 



63.-12. 10. 31. 20. Skull and horns. North of Beansi 

 Pass, Kumaon ; collected by Mr. Norman Troup. This 

 specimen stands No. 1 in Mr. Ward's list. Length of 

 horns 271, girth 6 J-, tip-to-tip interval 13^ inches. 



64. — 12. 10. 31. 21. Skull and horns. Same locality and 

 collector. No. 3 in Mr. Ward's list. Length of horns 27^, 

 girth 51, tip-to-tip interval 15^. 



65. — 12. 10. 31. 22. Skull and horns. Same locality 

 a,nd collector. 



THE BLACKBUCK, OR INDIAN ANTELOPE. 



Antilope cervicapea. 



Capra cervioapra, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 17, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 96, 1766. 



Antilope oervicapra, Pallas, Misc. Zool., p. 9, 1766 ; Spicil. Zool. 

 fasc. viii, p. 18, 1767, vol. xii, p. 19, 1777 ; Blanford, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Mamm. p. 591, 1891; Sclater and Thomas, Book 

 of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 5, pi. xlviii, 1897; Lydekker, Game 

 Animals of India, etc. p. 175, 1907; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 235, 1910 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 894. 



Cervioapra bezoartioa, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 159, 1843. 



Antilope bezoartica, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 117, Cat. Ungu- 

 lata Brit. Mas. p. 66, 1852; Jerdon, Mamm. India, p. 275, 1867. 



66.— 12. 10. 31. 18. Skull and horns (fig. 12). Gurgaon, 

 near Delhi. In this beautiful head, which stands No. 3 

 in Mr. Ward's list, the horns measure 28^ inches in a 



