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Types, 1, Chikara. 2, Quadricornis. 3, Subquadricornutus. 4, lodes. 

 5, Paccerois. (See Calcutta Journal Natural History for May, 1847.) 



Inhabit the forests of India generally. Avoid mountains and open 

 plains. Not gregarious. Rutting season, summer. Breeding season, 

 winter. Gestate 6 months, most young born in January, February. 

 They are very shy, and when hunted lie close or go off far ahead, 

 bounding like the common antelope, and hence one of their names, from 

 Chouk, a leap. 



10. Genus Antelope. 

 Antelopes Proper. 

 Sasin. 



Horns in males only. 



No mufle. 



Eye-pits, medial, very mobile, linear, vertically oblique. 



Feet-pits large in all 4 ? feet. 



Inguinal pits large and clearly denned. 



Calcic tufts ? 



Mammae two. 



Type, Cervicapra. Black Antelope. Barant and Sasin. Very gre- 

 garious on the open dry plains of India generally. I have no notes of 

 their intestines or of the breeding. 



11. Genus Gazella. 

 Ghazal. 



Horns in both sexes. 



No mufle. 



Eye-pits distinct, mobile. 



Feet-pits very large in all 4 extremities. 



Inguinal pits large and distinct. 



Calcic tufts ? 



Mammae two. 



Type Dorcas. Foreign to India. 



12. GenUS TRAGOPS. (r payoff et w\p ) 



Chikara, Kalsipi. 

 Horns in both sexes. 

 No mufle. 

 No eye-pits. • 

 Feet-pits large in all 4 feet. 

 Inguinal pits distinct. 

 Calcic tufts posteal. 

 Mammae two. 



Type, Antelope bennetti vel christii, found generally amid ravines of 



dry plains of India, and called Chikara and Kalsipi by natives ; Ravine 



Deer by Europeans. Not gregarious. 



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