THE NYL-GHAU. 
Antilope picta. Pall. 
The Nyl-ghau was quite unknown to the older natu- 
ralists. A notice of a nameless " Quadruped brought 
from Bengal," inserted by Dr. Parsons in the forty- 
third volume of the Philosophical Transactions, and 
accompanied by an imperfect figure, appears to contain 
the earliest description of this fine species of Antelope. 
But neither the description nor the figure were recog- 
nised as belonging to the Nyl-ghau, when the latter 
again made its appearance in England in 1767. A pair, 
male and female, were in that year sent from Bombay 
as a present to Lord Olive, to whom we are indebted 
