TETRACEROS QUADRICORNIS. Jirdon.
Antilopo chickara, Hard. T. lodes, Hodgson.
A. sub-quadricornutns,/.1/. T. paccerois, Hodgson.
T. striaticernis, Leadt.
Mind . . . of Bums. Chousingha, . MN°. Kotri, Kuru of BUSTAE. Chouka,Janglibakra, „ Kond-guri,. . . CAN. Bhekra, . . . MAHE. Bhirkuru (male), GoND. Bhirki, . . . Bhir (female), . . „ Kontia-gori, . . . TEL The four-horned antelope is of the sub-faiuily Antilopinte. It is of uniform brownish-bay colour above, beneath lighter. Its length is 40 to 42 inches, height at shoulders 24 to 26 inches, anterior horns up to inches, and posterior horns 4 to 5 inches. It frequents jungly hills and open glades in the forests, abounds in the Eastern Ghats, occurs at the foot of the Him alayas, is rare in Siud and the 'Western Panjab, and is unknown in the Malabar forest, Lower Bengal, valley of the Ganges, Ceylon, and Further India. The spurious horns are so small as rarely to be met with in adult individuals, and are situ ated on two osseous bumps or risings (strongly marked in the cranium), from which they seem to be easily detached. These osseous risings are immediately in front of the true horns, between the orbits, rather in front of a line drawn across the forehead through the centre of the eyes, and become covered with black callous skin after the loss of the corneous tips. The true horns are situated behind the eyes, or between the eyes and the cars, inclining backwards with a scarcely per ceptible curve forwards, straight, parallel, round, smooth, thick, and stroeg at the base, which has a few wriukles, and tapering to a point ; their colour black. Those of very old males were 4,i inches in length, and had three strong wrinkles, and one imperfect one at the base. The doe has
no horns, nor any bony projection above the eyes. The mammm are four in number. The colour is brown, of various shades, not bright, but some times so light as to approach a dull fawn, darker than the cervicapra, but not so bright and deep as in the gazelle. The shade is browner on the hind quarters, and darkest on the middle of the back. It becomes lighter on the sides till it passes gradually into white in the middle of the -belly, Nyithout the well-defined dark line of separation observable in the other two species. The fore legs, particularly above the knee, the inside of the fetlocks, the nose, and edge of the ears, are very dark. .A narrow line between the fore legs, which gradually widens towards the hinder flanks, the inside of the arms and thighs, is white, as is the inside of the ear, in which the hairs are long, and arranged in indistinct ridges. The lachrymatory sinus is long, narrow, and parallel with the line of the nose. In its habits it is monogamous, and is always found in pairs, frequenting the jungles amour, the undulating hills of the Mulnad. It is neve;found in the open country, or among the hills on the eastern side of the district, neither does it ever penetrate into the western forests. The droppings are always observed in heaps in par ticular spots. It is said to be fond of licking the salt efflorescence of the soil, from which habit, it is said,the incisors of old individuals are often found to be much worn, and sometimes wanting altogether.