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id. P. Z.S. 1850, p. 112; Horsf. Cat. Mamm. Mus. E.I. Co. p. 166 (1851) ; 
Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 189 (1858) ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli. pt. 2, p. 39 (1872). 
Antilope kemas, H. Sm. Griff. An. K. iv. p. 196, v. p. 328 (1827) ; Less. Compl. Buff. 
x. p. 285 (1836). 
“ The Chiru,” Quart. Orient. Mag. ii. p. 160 (1824), unde 
Antilope chiru, Less. Man. Mamm. p. 371 (1827) (ee Quart. Orient. Mag. 1824, 
p- 260) ; Oken, Allg. Naturg. vii. p. 1869 (1838) ; Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. 
p. 179 (1842). 
VernacuLtar Names :—Chiru of Southern Tibetans and of sportsmen generally ; 
Tsus 8, Chus 9, Chiru and Chuhu (Blanford); Orongo of Northern Tibetans 
(Przewalski) . 
Height at withers about 31 or 32 inches. Hair very close, thick, and 
crisp. Colour pale fawn, with a peculiar fulvous or pinkish suffusion, 
especially on the flanks. Belly whitish, not sharply separated from the colour 
of the sides. Face of male black, crown and neck whitish. Sides of muzzle 
in male markedly swollen. Ears short, but pointed, whitish. Limbs pale 
greyish white, a black line running down their anterior faces in the male; 
female without blacker markings. ‘Tail short, coloured like the rump. 
Skull dimensions of a male :—Basal length 10:2 inches, greatest breadth 5, 
muzzle to orbit 6:4. 
Horns long, very graceful, nearly straight, only slightly curved backwards 
below and forwards above, remarkably uniform in length and curvature, 
generally from 23 to 26 inches in length, the largest recorded being just 
under 28 inches. 
Female similar to male, but without horns. 
Hab. Plateau of Tibet. 
The Chiru, or Tibetan Antelope as it is often called, although known by 
the vague reports of the natives as long ago, perhaps, as 1816, was first 
introduced to science by Abel in 1826, from information and specimens 
furnished to him by the great naturalist and collector Hodgson, whose name 
it worthily bears. As we learn from Hodgson’s article published in 
‘Gleanings in Science’ for 1830, it was in 1824 or 1825 that a live Chiru 
was sent to him in Nepal, where he was British Resident at the Court of 
Catmandu. Hodgson, as was his custom, drew up an elaborate description 
of the animal, and, after its death, sent the notes along with the skin to 
