29 
— Tragelaphus Caii, Raii Syn. 82?— Parsons, Phil. Trans. No. 476. p. 465. t. 3. f. 9.~Nylghau, Hunter, 
Phil. Trans. Ixi. 170. t. 5 S .—Nilffhaiit, BulFpn, N. H. Supp. v. t. 10, 11.— F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t. c? ? . 
— Indostan Antelope, Penn. Syn. 29. — White-footed Antelope, Penn. Syn. 29. t. 6. f. 1, 2. 
Inhabits India. The Roou of the Mahrattas, the Nylghau of the Persians. 
This species has bred at Knowsley. In December 1845 they had two calves, both females, making a 
flock of one male and four females : they are in the paddock with the Eland in summer. They have also 
bred in the Gardens of the Zoological Society .—See P. Z. S. 1831, 37. 
Lord Derby in his Notes states : — 
" I SENT to you a few days back an account of the breeding of our Hog Deer here, and promised to follow 
it with a similar statement relative to the Harnessed Antelopes, or Guibe. 
" In the autumn of 1839 I purchased from Cross a female of the Ajit. scripta, and I subsequently 
obtained two males ; one in the following autumn (1840) from a gentleman who brought it from Africa 
in the same ship with Mr. Whitfield. By this male the female produced four fawns, and he died in 
December 1844; but his place has been well supplied by a second, which Mr. Whitfield brought to me 
from W. Africa, September 4, 1843. But this second male would appear, from the greater number of its 
white markings, to belong to another species, viz. phalerata, and such indeed it was considered by Mr. W. ; 
but we here can hardly bring ourselves to the conviction that they are other than mere varieties. Tliis 
second male has given birth to four fawns also, viz. two pairs. The first fawn produced by the old female 
was a male, fawned in February 1842, which died in a few days; the second, a female, was fawned in May 
1843 ; the third, also a doe, fawned in August 1844 ; the fourth, a doe, fawned in May 1845 ; and the fifth, 
fawned I know not when, but she took the male 23rd of May last, and should fawn 23rd of January next. 
The first doe (produced in May 1843) has already fawned twice, a male in February 1844, and a female 
20th of November last ; she is also again in fawn, and should fawn 3rd of January. You will see that these 
are a very prolific race, and breed very rapidly, which I do not believe has ever been hitherto noticed by 
any of our savans. I began my stock with a single female in autumn 1839, and I now, in 1845, have a 
small herd of about ten, not reckoning two which Thompson will take up with him tomorrow for the Queen, 
who has graciously accepted them. 
" I have now a good little herd of six Harnessed Antelopes, two males and four females, of which three 
are in young." — May 22, 1845. 
" The principal item that I obtained from the expedition upon which I sent Mr. Burke into the Inte- 
rior of South Africa, or what I considered as such, was the Eland, or Oreas Canna, which was then, as 
far as I know, for the first time brought alive into Europe. Of this interesting species I received three 
individuals in November 1842, but, unfortunately, only one of them was a female. One of the males 
appeared at first to be rather weakly, but after a short period rallied, and has since proved a very good 
animal. On being first landed at the Docks in Liverpool the cow met with an accident, which I at first 
feared might have seriously interfered with my projects for the future : the cage in which she was placed 
having been set down on the stones of the Dockyard, while the attendants were disembarking the other 
things, she, perhaps excited by the noises around, or tired of the confinement, became uneasy, and in 
turning herself round struck one of her horns between the framework of the cage, and fairly broke it oflf 
close to the root ; but did not seem to snfl^er from it either at the time, though a very small quantity of 
blood proceeded from the wonnd, nor has she ever since appeared the worse for it, except in appearance, 
as of course she has always continued an unicorn. The horn she lost is now in my museom. There is a 
diflference in the form of the two males, and by Burke and his companions I am told that there are two 
distinct races of these Antelopes ; a fact which appears to be well known in Africa, but which I never have 
found alluded to in any accounts of the animal yet published, one variety being longer-legged than the 
other, which is also heavier in the body. These characteristics are very plain in the two now in my pos- 
session, but there is evidently no real diflference, as the cow has bred with each, and the produce appear 
to me as yet to show no diflference. She bred first with the shorter-legged, August 31, 1843, and produced 
a male May 27, 1844; next, she took the longer-legged, date not kept, and produced another male March 
10th last : she has again copulated with the shorter-legged, and should calve about January 17, 1846. 
Thompson says there is a diflference in the calves, which each take after the sire. She is considered as 
