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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
may shortly expect considerable additions to our know- 
ledge in this interesting department. 
The Indian Antelope is nearly equal in size to the 
Fallow-deer, which it closely resembles in form, but 
with some slight differences in the shape of the head. 
In the full grown male the whole of the back and 
upper parts of the sides, together with a broad band 
occupying the entire fore part of the neck, the outsides 
of the limbs, the upper surface of the tail, the ears, and 
a considerable portion of the head and face, are of a 
deep fawn colour, shaded more and more, as the animal 
advances in age, with an intermixture of black hairs, 
which are most numerous over the shoulders, on the 
fore legs, on the front of the neck, round the bases of 
the horns, and on the face where they are still deeper 
than on any other part. The under surface from the 
chest to the tip of the tail, a tuft of long hairs at the 
end of the latter, a broad patch on the buttocks, the 
insides of the limbs, the extremity of the nose, the lower 
lip, the chin, and a broad circle round each of the eyes, 
are pure white. The line of separation between the 
colours is distinctly marked in every part. Below each 
eye there is usually a small dusky spot marking the 
commencement of the suborbital sinus, which is of large 
size. A similar patch occurs at the junction of the 
hoofs. The latter are black, acute, much elongated, 
and not separable to any great extent from each other. 
Beneath the knees on the fore legs is a broad brush of 
radiating hairs. The horns, which make their appear- 
ance in the seventh month, increase rapidly in size until 
the third year, at which time they have completed two 
spiral turns, and are marked by about twelve elevated 
rings. After this period their growth is less rapid ; but 
at six years old the number of convolutions is increased 
to three, and that of the circular rings to twenty-seven. 
