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THE MOUNTAIN ANTELOPE. 
There has been much difference of opinion amongst 
Indian naturalists and sportsmen as to this animal, whether it 
is merely a variety of the four-horned antelope, {Tetraceros 
quadricornis) or whether it is a distinct species* Jerdon at 
one time considered it distinct from the northern animal, as all 
the specimens he procured from the Eastern Ghauts had only 
a vestige of anterior horns and were very pale coloured ; but 
in deference to Mr. Blyth s matured opinion, he has followed 
THE MOUNTAIN ANTELOPE, 
him and united the two into one species. McMaster in his 
notes on Jerdon's book, considers the mountain antelope of 
Madras sportsmen to be a distinct species and calls it Elliot's 
antelope. Hawkeye states that : the mountain antelope is 
but little known, and perhaps has not been heard of by many, 
as one of the game animals frequenting the mountain ranges 
of Southern India," and says "that on the Pulneys this antelope 
