94 The Four-horned Antelopes of India* 



feet exclusively, are darkened almost to blackness in both sexes, as in 

 Nahtir and Burhel, and the chaffron or bridge of the nose is so like- 

 wise in the males, though not in the females. 



I have named the present species lodes or the rusty-red, because 

 such is conspicuously its general colour, which prevails throughout 

 over the body and neck, only somewhat diluted on the lower surface of 

 both. The head also, both above and laterally, is rusty-red, but 

 inferiorly pure white, which likewise is the colour of the insides of 

 the limbs near the body, and of the edges of the buttocks and tail, 

 the rest of the tail being rusty-red, like the general surface. The 

 females of both my species are as large as the males, but are 

 distinguished by the total absence of horns and by the want of the 

 dark mask proper to the males, the fronts of whose limbs also 

 are darker than in the females, and yet more so than in the juniors, 

 though even in them, after a few months, the blackening of the limbs 

 may be traced. 



Description of Plate IV. 



Fig. 1, Portraits of Tetraceri or Chousingas of the Saul forests. Rusty 

 sp. Full-horned behind. 



Fig. 2, I. Senior, II. Junior, of Paccerois or Full-horned. III. of T. iodcs 

 or Rusty-red. 



Fig. 4, Interdigital sac of the Thar, with skin of pastern dissected off the 

 leg : natural size. 



Darjeeling : May, 1847. 



On the Buzzards of the Himalaya and of Tibet. By B. H. Hodg- 

 son, Esq. 



Unlike the Moor Buzzards and the rest of the Harriers (Circus) 

 which abound in the plains of India at all seasons of the year, the 

 true Buzzards (Buteo) and the Booted Buzzards (Archibuteo) seem 

 to affect cold regions ; only one, or possibly two, species of Buteo 

 being found in the plains even in the cold months, and no species of 

 Archibuteo whatever. Mr. Jerdon's ample and accurate Catalogue 

 gives but one species of Buteo, (Longipes) which it appears is identi- 

 cal with my Canescens, and both with the African species Rufinus 

 of Ruppel. This bird is very common in the Tarai and lower hills 



