696 On Various Genera i of the Ruminants. [July, 



These animals have the lyrate horns common to both sexes, the knee 

 tufts, lines along the flanks and ovine hairy nose of the Gazelles : but 

 they are wholly void of eye-pits. The dark lustre of their large* eyes 

 is as striking as in the 2 last groups. Gazelles differ from Antelopes 

 in that their horns are lyrate, and that the females also carry them. 

 The Tragops differ from both by the total absence of sub-orbital sinuses, 

 or eye -pits. 



13. Genus Pantholops. 

 Chiru. 



Molar teeth f . 



Horns in males only. 



No mufle. 



No eye-pits. 



Feet-pits large in all 4 feet. 



Inguinal sacs, purse-like, large, pendent. 



Calcic tufts ? 



Mammse, two. 



Large intermaxillary sacs like double nostrils. 



Type, Antelope hodgsonii, Abel. The Chiru. 



Habitat open plains of Tibet. Gregarious, rutting season, winter. 

 Breeding season, the summer. Gestate 6 months. One young at a 

 birth. They are very pugnacious and jealous, and in their contests 

 often break off their long horns one of them. Hence the rumour of 

 Unicorns in Tibet. (See Gleanings and Journal Asiatic Society, Nos. 2 

 and 27.) 



34. Genus Procapra, 

 Goa and Ragoa. 

 Horns in males only. 

 No mufle. 

 No eye-pits. 



Feet-pits small in all 4 feet, 

 Post cornual sinus, large. 

 No inguinal pores. 

 Calcic tufts posteah 

 Mammae two. 



Type P. picticaudata. Goa of Tibet, 



• This is one of the marks by which the Antelopine family may be distinguished from 

 the small pale-eyed Goats or Caprine family, 



