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have met with the Tibetan Antelope. Sir Joseph Hooker, in the second 
volume of his ‘ Himalayan Journal,’ tells us that he saw Chirus on the 
Cholamoo lakes near the Donkia Pass in Sikim in October 1849. They were 
feeding in company with “ Gaurs” (Gazella picticaudata) upon the short grass 
about the lake, which lies at an elevation of some 17,000 feet above the sea- 
level. Sir Joseph Hooker gives an excellent figure of the remarkable horns 
of this Antelope, which by his kindness we are enabled to reproduce, 
Horns of Chiru. 
(From Hooker’s ‘ Himalayan Journal,’ vol. ii. p. 158.) 
and alludes to the ideas of Hodgson (which were shared in by Huc and 
Gabet) of the profile view of these horns having given rise to the belief of 
the existence ofa Unicorn in Tibet. We should mention that Blanford when 
he visited Sikim in 1871 was told by the Tibetans that the Chiru is not now 
found within a long distance of the frontier, but only beyond it in Tibet 
proper. He admits, however, that it is not probable that there could have 
been any mistake about so fine and conspicuous an animal. 
