1831.] 
On the Bubaline Antelope. 
123 
The ears are very large and coarse, erect, not much opened ; the insides well 
lined with long soft hair ; the tips rather sharp, and not tufted. 
The head is (as already noted) not inelegantly large, though coarse and expres- 
sionless ; the tapering considerable, and uniform to the muzzle : the eye (for an 
antelope) poor and mean ; the suborbital sinuses, quite round, small, distinct, and 
naked ; the testes, goat-like, large and pendant, and hairy ; the hoofs, short, firm, 
and thick ; the teeth, void of characters ; the hair, coarse, bristly, straight, 
sparely set on, and closely applied to the skin ; the entire neck, and half the shoulders 
furnished with a semi-erect, straight mane, composed of bristles, rather longer and 
stouter than those covering the rest of the body, in character goat or rather hog- 
like; no mane on the pectoral surface of the neck ; nor any semblance of beard on 
the chin; the tail, short, narrow, and deer-like. With regard to the colours, there 
is, in this species, some little variation, independent of that caused by sex and age • 
but the following may be relied on as an adequate description of the mature male 
in this respect. 
The whole superior parts of the animal, and the neck, below, as well as above 
are jure black,— the lateral parts black, largely mixed with earthy brown red • the 
latter colour prevailing greatly over the former on the limbs above the knees * the 
vlferior parts, insides of the limbs, and entire legs below the knees, as well as the 
insides of the ears, and the muzzle, dirty white. The outsides of the ears are black 
like the rest of the superior surface, but dotted with the brown-red of the flanks • 
the periophthalmic region, nearly naked, and of an earthy red, mixed with grey ; 
round the sinuses, the same: irides, brown-red : horns and hoofs, black: naked 
skin of the nose, the same. 
In the female, the black of the superior parts is less full than in the male and 
sometimes mixed with grey. In her, too, and in the young male, the parts above 
described as white, are sprinkled often with the red prevailing on the parts next to 
them ; and, lastly, the belly is not immaculate white, but has a black sprinkling. 
The Nipalese call this animal the Tk&r: and the chase of it is a favourite diversion' 
with the Gooroong tribes especially, who usually kill it with poisoned arrows. It 
is not speedy, as might be inferred from what has been said of its make. Its flesh 
is very coarse and bad. But there is plenty of it, and these mountaineers, who are 
apt to look to the quantity, more than the quality, of such flesh, as a Hindoo Go-, 
vernment deems licit food for them, prize the Th&r very highly, and hunt him very 
eagerly. The following are the size and dimensions of a fine mature male 
Length of the body, from the setting on of horn, to root of tail. 
Length of the head, 
Length of tail, (flesh only,) 
Ditto ditto, to end of hair, 
Height of animal, shoulder, 
Depth of chest. 
Height of fore leg, to line of chest, 
Utmost girth of the head, 
Ditto ditto, of the body, 
Length of ears, 
Ditto of horns, (in straight line,' 
Hasal diameter of ditto, 
Hasal interval of ditto, 
feet. in. 
4 li 
0 11 * 
0 
0 6 i 
3 1 
1 3 § 
1 9 f 
1 9 
3 2 
0 7 i 
0 8 
0 li 
0 Of 
