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in its place by some authorities, refers to quite a different animal, probably 
to one of the wild goats, but certainly not to the Indian Antelope. 
As regards the generic appellation of the present animal, we have already 
explained our reasons for following the general practice of the best modern 
authors in considering the Capra cervicapra of Linneus to be the type of the 
genus Antilope, although Pallas, who founded the genus, did not give it 
precedence in his list of species. But the fact is that Pallas in his day 
never realized the importance attached in modern times to the exact 
designation of the types of genera, and had probably no intentions in the 
matter. The correct scientific name of the Black-buck is therefore, in our 
opinion, Antilope cervicapra. 
The authors immediately subsequent to Linnzus, whose numerous 
references we quote in our synonymy, added little or nothing to our knowledge 
of the Indian Antelope. Shaw and other writers of the same date continued 
the story (which originally arose from its being confounded with the Addax) 
of its being met with in Africa as well as India—a fallacy which appears to 
have been first exposed by Lichtenstein in his excellent article on the genus 
Antilope, published in 1814. But accurate information on this Antelope 
and its exact range and habits was only obtained when the fauna of the 
Indian Peninsula came to be investigated by those whom the increase of 
English influence caused to be resident in that country. 
After General Hardwicke, the late Sir Walter Elliot was among the first 
of the British residents in India who turned his special attention to the 
zoology of British India. In 1839 he published an excellent article upon 
the mammals of the Southern Mahratta country. Here, he tells us, the 
Indian Antelope “frequents the plains in herds of from twenty to thirty, 
each of which contains only one buck of mature age, the others being young 
ones.” In some cases the herds are so large that one buck has fifty or sixty 
does in its company, while the younger bucks, driven away by the old ones, 
wander about in separate herds, which sometimes contain as many as thirty 
individuals of different ages. 
Jerdon, in his ‘Mammals of India,’ published in 1867, following Gray, 
calls the Indian Antelope Antilope bezoartica, but gives us a good account of 
it. Itis found, he says, throughout India in suitable localities, but is not met 
with elsewhere. “It is rare in Bengal, a few only extending into Purneah 
and Dinagepore, north of the Ganges; and it does not occur in the richly 
