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THE MOUNTAIN ANTELOPE. 
to each othen 1 think from the description this must be 
Elliots antelope, it is evidently the same animal as mine. 
The only doubt is that in my specimen there is not a sign of 
' spurious horns/ though it has the • osseous bumps ' which 
are so conspicuous in yours, but certainly are not to be * easily 
detached ' as stated in Elliot's description. In all other 
respects the measurements and descrijjtion correspond exactly ; 
though it is strange Elliot did not notice the peculiar white 
lower jaw which is so marked in my specimen : this and the 
entire absence of spurious horns may fix it as a different 
species. Here are my measurements, taken when the animal 
was fresh killed. You will see how close they are to Elliot s. 
Height at shoulder 25 inches 
Ditto at rump 27 inches 
Length of leg i foot, 5 inches 
Chest to rump 2 feet 2 inches 
Neck 6| inches 
Tail 9f inches 
Horns 3f inches 
I see your horns are at slightly different angles but not so 
marked as mine. They are J of an inch longer." 
In respect to this supposed species, Mr. W, T. Blandford, 
F.R.S., ("Fauna of British India," p. 520,) under Tetraceros 
qiiadricornis Varieties, says: *'In the Madras Presidency 
the anterior horns are said to be rarely developed, and cer- 
tainly fully adult animals occur without any, and with 
only small projections on the skull, but I can see no other 
difference ; the skulls, whether the anterior horns are devel- 
oped or not, are precisely similar in form and scarcely differ 
in size. In the case of a male that I obtained young in 
Nimar and that was kept alive by a friend in Bombay, the 
