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when they will not admit of approach. On three or four occasions they have 
stood stupidly looking at me as I walked in full view slowly towards them, 
and have allowed me to get within 20 yards before bolting. This only 
occurs when one does not want to shoot them. Forsyth says that the 
females are more numerous than the bucks, and bear the same proportion 
to each other as the does and bucks of the black buck. At one time I 
thought the same myself, but further experience has made me sure that 
this is not the fact, and that bucks are nearly, if not quite, as numerous as 
does. The female is hornless. The male has four horns; the posterior and 
larger pair in a good specimen will be four inches long or a little more. 
One-and-a-half inches is a good length for the anterior horns and is not 
often exceeded. In some heads the anterior horns are absent, though the 
bony knobs are covered with a callous black skin.” : 
The Four-horned Antelope is not unfrequently brought alive to Europe, 
but cannot be said to accommodate itself very readily to our northern climate. 
In 1868 a single specimen was received by the Zoological Society of London 
as a present from the Babu Rajendra Mullick, of Calcutta. In 1881 a pair 
of the typical form were acquired by purchase, and bred in the Regent’s Park 
in the following spring. A female calf was born on February 28th, 1882. 
In 1875 three examples of the subspecies (or variety) without the anterior 
horns were obtained by purchase. Several examples of this same form have 
been received of late years, but have not thriven in the Society’s Gardens. 
At the present time there is only a single female left in the Collection. 
Our figure of this Antelope (Plate XXIV.) was lithographed by Smit 
from a sketch of Mr. Wolf’s. It represents an adult male of the typical 
subspecies in two positions. 
August, 1895. 
