1839] 



in the Southern Mahratta Country. 



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were very little lyrated; the 2d were the strongest and thickest. I 

 have also killed the buck weighing 51-lbs., the does weigh from 35 to 

 40-lbs. This is about half the weight of Cervicapra which varies from 

 90 to 100-Ibs. 



The adult female has the horns inclining more to the rear, curved 

 backwards, the tips forwards, slightlyo wrinkled at the base, the rest 

 smooth and black, and nearly equidistant. 



In both the lachrymatory sinus is small and black. There is a dark 

 spot on the nose, and aline from the eyes to the mouth surmounted by 

 a light one. Knee-brushes, tail and fetlocks behind, black; chin, 

 breast, and buttocks behind, white. Rest of the body, dark fawn deeper 

 where it borders the white on the sides and buttocks. Ears long, 3 

 ridges of hair along the inner surface. 



Inguinal pores, 2 mammae. Horns of the female sometimes with a 

 few imperfect annuli, and never corresponding with each other. 



56.—J n tilope SuhA-Cornutus ?— New species ?—Jnti!ope Chi- 

 kara, Hardwicke. — Brown Anlilope, Sykes. 



Kondguri, Canarese. ~^V307^o5 



Junglibukra, Dekhani. j ^ ^ifji^ 



It is not improbable that the chikara (a name, by the way most 

 incorrectly applied to this species, being restricted by all natives to 

 the preceding one), the Quadricornis of Blainville, and the Striaticornis 

 of Leach — all refer to the same animal. But the descriptions being 

 only from isolated individuals, have not been sufficiently discriminat- 

 ed to determine the point. 



The detailed description of General Hardwicke in the Linnsean 

 Transactions, differs in many important particulars from the characters of 

 the Dekhan species. This is much larger, and the colour varies consi- 

 derably both from the Hindostan chikara, in which it is of a " uniform 

 bright bay,'' and in the shades of individuals of different ages in the 

 Dekhah. The spurious horns are so small, as rarely to be met with 

 in adult individuals, and are situated on two osseous bumps or risings 

 (strongly marked in the cranium) from which they seem to be easily 

 detached. These osseous risings are immediately in front of the true 

 horns, between the orbits, rather in front of a line drawn across the 

 forehead through the centre of the eyes, and become covered with 

 black callous skin, after the loss of the corneous tips. The true horns 

 are situated behind the eyes or between the eyes,and the ears, inclining 

 backwards with a scarcely perceptible curve forwards, straight, parallel, 

 round, smooth, thick, and strong at the base which has a few wrinkles 



