Bennett's Antelope. 



Antilope Bennettii, Sykes, Proc. Comm. Sci. & Corr. Zool. Soc. 1830-1, p. 104. 



This beautiful species of Gazelle, according to Col. Sykes, is found on the rocky hills of 

 Dukhun, rarely exceeding three or four in a group, and frequently solitary. It is the Kalseepee 

 or Black Tail of the Mahrattas ; the Goat Antelope of Europeans. It was named in compliment 

 to that able naturalist and amiable man, the late Mr. Bennett, Secretary to the Zoological Society. 



The intestinal canal of one mature specimen was twenty-six feet long, narrow, and contracted for 

 its whole length on one side into numerous hemispherical loculi. The liver of one oblong flat lobe, 

 with one fissure six and a half inches deep. The stomachs of the ordinary character of this genus. 

 The caecum five inches long, one and two-tenths wide; the faeces somewhat hard, for nine or 

 ten inches from the rectum ; the colon one inch wide. Spleen lens shaped three inches by two and 

 a half, nearly flat. The gall of an intensely dull green colour. The specimen, a female, with one 

 foetus in the womb. 



There are adults of this animal, both male and female, in the British Museum, an immature 

 male in the Zoological Society's Museum, and immature specimens, male and female, in the Hon. 

 East India Company's Collection, all presented by Col. Sykes ; it was from the male in the British 

 Museum that the accompanying figure was taken. 



In the foreground is a sketch of some Basaltic columns, in the neighbourhood of Serroor, and 

 in the background a view of the Palace of the Mankeswur at Tembournee ; copied from Col. Sykes' 

 drawings, made in the year 1827. 



Horns erect, slightly diverging from each other, bending slightly backwards at first, subse- 

 quently with their points bending forward : ringed for three-fifths of their length. The whole 

 upper surface and outside of the limbs rufous or red brown. Under surface and inside of the limbs 

 white. Tail, black. A black patch on the nose. A black narrow streak from the anterior corner 

 of each eye towards the angle of the mouth. Suborbital sinuses very small ; in dried skins not 

 observable ; nor does the animal dilate them unless very much alarmed. Limbs long and slender ; 

 black tufts at the knees. Body light. The female has horns ; but they are slender, cylindrical, 

 and without rings. The buttocks present a heart-shaped patch of white. Unlike the Indian 

 Antelope ( Ant. cervicapra ), it carries its tail erect when in rapid motion. 



