Perilliolopn.
The horns are elongate, lyrist° ; the nose (of the males?) has a dilated pouch on each side ; the ennnen is distinct ; the hair close, erect, and spreading ; the nose-opening in the skull is large.
2. Pantholopa Hodgronei (Antilope Hodgroni, Abel), the Chin', is believed to be the Unicorn of the Ithotirus, and supposed by Colonel Smith to be the animal which Mien describes under the name of Roma*, (see also Homer, Iliad,' x. 361.) an opinion founded upon very slight and not easily tenable grounds. The whole length of this animal, from the muzzle to the root of the tail, in about 5 feet, its height 3 feet; the tail is 8 inches long ; the heed, from the nose to the root of the horns, 9 inches; the ears 4 inches, and the horns measured along the curves, upwards of 2 feet. The horns grow upright from the skull, are strongly compressed on the sides, bent slightly backwards at first, and afterwards point gradually forwards, thus assuming a lyrate form, but leas stongly marked than in the common gazelle ; they are surrounded, to within 6 inches of the points, with from 15 to 20 annuli, forming prominent knobe in front, but more obscure on the sides and rear ; the last 6 inches are smooth and round, and the points rather attenuated. The legs are long and slender ; but the symmetry of the head is destroyed by two large fleshy tumours about half the size of a lien's egg, which grow close to the outer margins of the nostrils, as well as by it profusion of bristly hair which surrounds the mouth and nose. Tho body is fundolied with two different kinds of hair, a long external coat of the usual quality, and a short interior one of fine close wool. The prevalent colour of the latter is uniform grayish blue, and the outer coat is likewise of the same colour at the base, but it is tipped with reddish fawn, and thus gives the whole of the upper parts a tawny line, through which the lower tinge is but faintly visible. The belly and Interior of the limbs are white, the nose and face black, and a dark brown band passes down the front of each leg.
The Chirp, according to the information obtained by Mr. Hodgson, inhabits the elevated plains of Tibet, but never approaches the mountains, and is altogether unknown on the Indian side of the great Himalayan chain. It is gregarious, residing in herds of many hundreds on the open plains, extremely shy and difficult to approach, posting sentinels in all directions where the herd feeds or reposes, and flying with astonishing velocity on the first alarm or intimation of danger. When brought to bay, however, the males defend themselves
with courage, and in confinement are sometimes mischievous, and should be always approached with a considerable degree of caution. They are very jealous and pugnacious, and in their contests often break off one of their long horns—hence the belief in their being Unicorns. Like moat other Ruminants, they are extremely fond of salt, and during the summer months unite in large herds to visit the beds of this mineral, which abound throughout Tibet, advancing under the guidance of an experienced leader, and as usual posting sentinels to prevent surprise.
Procapra.
The horns are lyrate, strong, and black ; the tail is tapering; the nose simple, as in the sheep; the muffle and crimes nbeent ; the feet with small feet-pits; the post-conical sinus large; no inguinnl pores; the hair elongated, especially above the head and neck ; the knees not tufted ; the females are hornless ; the teats two ; the male has rather a large nose-hole; no suborbital pits, but very large slits ; the inter maxillary bones short.
3. I'rocapra gutturosa (Antelope gulturosa, Pallas), the Dzcreu, the bang Yang, Wheng Yang, or Yellow Goat of the Chinese, is nearly 44 feet in length, and 2 feet 6 inches high at the shoulder ; the body also is large and corpulent, and the legs shorter than is common to the Antelopes in general ; the horns are black, lyrated, mid marked to within a short distance of their points with prominent transverse rings; the suborbital sinuses are small ; the larynx large and salient, forming, particularly in the old bucks, a prominent lump on the throat ; upon the prepuce of the same sex there is likewise situated a bag about the size of a hen's egg, which contains a waxy substance similar to that produced in the analogous organ of the musk animal, but without any kind of odour; the tail is short, and the knees furnished with small bunches of hair, but scarcely sufficiently long and distinct to merit the name of brushes; the summer coat is of a grayish fawn-colour above, and white beneath ; that of winter almost entirely white, being tinged but slightly with a grayish yellow shade on the back and sides. The females resemble the melee in colour, but are rather of smaller size, and without horns ; they want the sac on the abdomen, and have two teats.