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have been taken by Mr. Smit from two mounted specimens in the British 
Museum of Natural History, the male of which, from Gwalior, was presented 
by Mr. C. Maries, of the Gwalior Museum. 
The National Collection possesses other examples of this Antelope, besides 
a fine series of heads and horns, mostly from Rajpootana and the Punjab, 
Fig. 45. 
Horns of Black-buck, ¢. 
(In the Collection of Mr. A. O. Hume.) 
belonging to the splendid collection of these objects presented to the British 
Museum by Mr. A. O. Hume, C.B. In order to show the large dimensions to 
which the horns of the adult male Black-buck attain in Rajpootana and 
Hurriana we give a drawing (fig. 45) of a beautiful pair still in the possession of 
Mr. Hume, which attained a length of no less than 284 inches measured in a 
straight line. On referring to the long list of the dimensions of the horns of 
