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stituting a group of the Kuminantia for which it is extremely 
difficult to find a definition which will embrace them all, 
as they exhibit considerable diversity of characters, some 
of them presenting affinities with the oxen and others 
with the sheep and goats. A few are as large as the 
largest ox, and others as small even as the mouse-deer. 
Both sexes in some species are provided with horns, but 
generally these structures are confined to the males, and it 
is in this group that we alone find the presence of four horns. 
The number of their teats also varies, as some have two 
teats only, whilst others have four. Some are provided with 
dewlaps like oxen ; and other species are distinguished by 
the presence of glandular pouches between the toes, or 
have similar structures in the groin, and very many of them 
have knee-brushes. The form of their head is much 
varied, and in some, such as Alcelaphus bubalis , the Buba- 
line antelope of Africa, it is remarkably elongated ; their 
horns also present considerable diversity of form. In the 
Gazelles, they are generally nodulated and deeply ringed 
anteriorly, and more or less erect and doubly curved. The 
majority of them have a pouch before the eye known as 
the larmier. 
The common Gazelle of India, G. bennetti , is sometimes 
erroneously called by sportsmen the Ravine-deer, its native 
name being the chikara . Its distribution is not restricted to 
India, but extends through Baluchistan to the head of the 
Persian Gulf. In India, it is c ° n fi n ed to the drier and 
even more desert regions, being especially abundant in 
Rajputana, Hurriana, Sindh and Kachh, but it also ranges 
over the greater part of the North-West Provinces and 
the Punjab, and over Central India as far south almost 
as the latitude of Madras, and is unknown in Lower 
