486 Anatomy of Ailurus, Porcula, and Styloccrus. [Nor. 



which, of very various dates and unequal value, was saved on my hur- 

 ried departure for Europe. 



Genus Axis. Read canines in males only or in both sexes. And 

 below as follows : Their breeding time is spring, their rutting season, 

 autumn. They gestate about 6 months. Horns cast in January, and, 

 in confinement at least, not perfect till June-July. With September, 

 when the horns are in full perfection the males begin to rut. 



Character of Moschidse, — add Gall-bladder constant ; and in the 

 native names, for Muskhi haran, read Muskh simply. Character of the 

 Cavicornise minores, add Gall-bladder constant. Character of the 

 Antilopidse for canines constant, read canines rare. Genus Antelope, 

 add canines none. So also Genus Gazella. Genus Tragops. The name, 

 I hear, is pre-occupied. Wherefore I substitute Tragomma. Colonel 

 Sykes (Zool. Journal) says of this type, " Eye-pits very small." But 

 there are certainly none in my samples nor in those of Procapra, though 

 there be slight depressions in the sculls of both. Such embryotic 

 organs however cannot be admitted as characters of genera, how inter- 

 esting soever they be as indications of those links by which genera are 

 connected. 



Genera 13, 14, 15, 16. Add to the generic character of each, 

 Canines none. Native name of Nemorhcedus, for Saraw read Saraon, 

 vulgo Sarrow. Genus Kemas, for Calcic tufts ? read, No calcic gland 

 or tuft. 



Genus Hemitragus, — add Horns in both sexes. 



Genus Capra, — add no eye-pits. 



Note. I have just ascertained by careful experiment that goats gestate 

 5 lunar months. Genus Ovis, the assertion that the wild type or Ammo- 

 noides gestates 6 months rests necessarily on native information. I feel 

 confident that the gestation is identical with that of domestic sheep. Car- 

 vicornise majores, character of the group, dele " laterally ;" and for mufle 

 large, read mufle variable. Character of Bovinse, for large angle, read acute 

 angle, and for mufle very large, read mufle large and constant. Genus 

 Bos. Type Bos domesticus, add this note. Domestic types are bad, but 

 I have none other to refer to, Bos being a form proper to temperate 

 climes and authors having rather lumped together than discriminated the 

 various wild types of Bos and its allies. I believe however that Bos 

 Scoticus, the Chillingham breed, and the Wizend of Germany, are genuine 



