92 The Four-homed Antelopes of India. 



The eye is large and dark, and about three-quarters of an inch 

 below the eye is the lachrymal fissure, which presents externally the 

 appearance of a straight cleft running in the direction of the bridge 

 of the nose, and about as long as its interval from the eye. This 

 fissure leads to a shallow sinus, which is nude within and furnished 

 with scattered small glands secreting an aqueous viscid humour, 

 having a slight and agreeable odour, such as we are sensible of in 

 approaching most deer and antelopes. The suborbital sinus in the 

 Chousingas has the same character as in the deer, but is smaller and 

 less mobile than in the Rusas or Muntjacs, and opens upwards rather 

 than downwards from its external base, from a depth of about half 

 an inch. 



The ears are of good size, fan-shaped and deer-like, nude and rubes- 

 cent, of flesh-colour within, and marked with three striae or stripes 

 of hair. The delicate elastic limbs are void of knee-tufts or cal- 

 losities, and end in small, low, compressed hoofs, slightly scooped 

 below ; and in false hoofs which are fully developed but not pointed, 

 obtusely conic and approximated, with a tuft of hair between them, 

 as in the China . The fore feet have no interdigital pores, but the 

 hind feet I think possess them, though my memoranda are dubious 

 on that point. It may be as well to add that these peculiar organs* 

 are placed in the hollow in front of the pastern between the two 

 bones, and that by their presence or absence, in the fore or hind, or 

 both extremities, they help to characterize the groups of deer, ante- 

 lopes, goats and sheep. For example, the goats have them in the 

 fore feet only : the sheep in all four feet : and the Rusans (Sambers, 

 Jerrows), the Gowrers are devoid of them : the axines have them in 

 the hind feet only ; and so also the Muntjacs or barking deer In the 

 goat antelopes (Thar and Goral) they are very large in all four feet ; 

 and likewise in the unicorn antelopes of Tibet (Pantholops) whilst the 

 Hemitrages (Jharal or Tehr) of the Himalayas, are devoid of them en- 

 tirely. In the four-horned antelopes of the Saul forest there is not, 

 I think, any trace of the calcicf gland or tuft, so common, according 



Sec accompanying sketch of them in the Tlnir. 

 t Placed on the hock or rather stifle, inside and out, or only the one where 

 there is a whorl or callosity in most quadrupeds. 



