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Mahratti; Bhokra, Phokra, Guzerati; Bhirki at Saugor; Bhir, Gond; Bhirul, 
Bheel; Kotari in Chutia Nagpur; Kwrus, Gonds of Bastar; Konda-gori, Telugu ; 
Kond-guri, Kaulla-kuri, Canarese ; Jangli Bakri in the Deccan (Blanford). The 
Southern Indian names may be taken as referring to subsp. subquadricornutus. 
Height at withers about 25 inches. General colour dull rufous brown, 
whitish below, the line of demarcation on both sides not sharply defined. 
Muzzle, outer side of ears, and a line down the front of the limbs blackish 
brown. Outer sides of fetlocks whitish. 
Skull and horns as described above (p. 213). Dimensions of an adult male 
skull: basal length 6°5 inches, greatest breadth 3:2, muzzle to orbit 3°65. 
Horns straight, or the posterior pair slightly curving forwards; the latter 
are from two to three times the length of the anterior pair. Mr. Blanford 
states that the anterior are usually from 1 to 14 inch long, while the posterior 
are from 3 to 4 inches; while the best head recorded by Mr. R. Ward, from 
the collection of Sir E. Loder, has a front horn of 24, a back one 43 inches. 
The subspecies 7. g. subquadricornutus is similar in all respects to the 
typical form, with the exception that the anterior horns are either entirely 
absent, or are represented merely by small horny knobs, which often fall off 
and leave a black callous patch. 
Hab. Peninsula of India, south of the Himalayas (in suitable localities). 
The Four-horned Antelope, the single representative of the genus Tetraceros, 
is the only member of this subfamily of Antelopes found in Asia, and in 
its present distribution is confined to India south of the Himalayas. This 
species was first named by the French zoologist De Blainville, in course of 
a memoir read before the Société Philomathique of Paris in 1816. It was 
based upon a skull which he appears to have seen in London in the Museum 
of the Royal College of Surgeons. For several years little more was known 
of this animal, but in 1824 it was figured by Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and 
F. Cuvier in their ‘ Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes,’ from a drawing 
(accompanied by notes) forwarded to them by Duvaucel, a well-known French 
naturalist who was then in India. In the meantime Major-General Thomas 
Hardwicke, a name well known in Indian zoology, who had’ become well 
acquainted with the animal during his residence in India, had described it 
in a memoir read before the Linnean Society in 1823. Owing to the delay 
