327 



IFith curmd, bent, or twisted Horns, 



NILGHAU, 



Antilope Picta. A, cornihus antrorsum incurvis, cervice colloque 



juhatis, Cauda Innga Jioccosa, pedibus albo nigroque annulatis, 



Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1 84. 

 Slate-coloured Antelope,, with the back of the neck and breast 



maned, the feet barred with black and white, and subtriangu- 



lar tapering horns bending forwards. 

 Nyl-ghau. Hunter. Phil. Trans, vol. 61. p, 170. pi. ^. 

 Nil-Gaut. Bvff. Suppl. 6. p. 101, pi. 10, 11. 

 White-footed Antelope. Pennant Qnadr. i,p. 83, 



The Nilgaii, or White-footed Antelope, is a 

 large and beautiful species, known only within 

 tlie space of a few years past. Its height, as given 

 by Dr. William Hunter, in the Philosophical 

 Transactions, is four feet one inch to the top of 

 the shoulders, and its length, from the bottom of 

 the neck to the base of the tail, four feet. The 

 colour of the Nilgau is a fine dark grey or slate- 

 colour, with a large spot of white beneath the 

 throat, and two white bands or marks above each 

 foot : the ears are large, white within, and edged 

 with the same colour ; and marked internally by 

 two black stripes : along the top of the neck runs 

 a slight mane of black hair, which is continued 

 to some distance down the back; and on the 

 breast is a much longer mane or hanging tuft of 

 a similar colour : the tail is moderately long, and 

 terminated by a tuft of black hair : the horns are 

 short, pointed, smooth, triangular at their base, 



