l not bear the slightest burden, but the nilgao
will carry a man. I had one in my collection of animals which I trained,
not to saddle, for such a thing would not stay on his back, but to
saddle-cloth. He was a little difficult to ride, rather jumpy at
times, otherwise his pace was a shuffling trot. I used to take him
out into camp with me, and made him earn his grain by carrying the
servants' bundles. He was not very safe, for he was, when excited,
apt to charge; and a charge from a blue bull with his short sharp
horns is not to be despised. In some parts the Hindoos will not touch
the flesh of this animal, which they believe to be allied to the cow.
It has much more of a horsey look about it. McMaster says that in
some parts of the Coimbatore district the natives described this
creature to Colonel Douglas Hamilton as a wild horse, and called it
by a name signifying such. He also notices the resemblance of the
Gondi name _Guraya_, to the Hindi _Ghora_.

_GENUS TETRACEROS_.

Horns four, conical, smooth, slightly bent forward at tip, the
anterior ones very short, sometimes rudimentary, which has led to
the distinction of a separate species by some naturalists; slightly
ringed at the base. The posterior ones situated far back on the
frontal bone, the anterior ones above the orbits; eye-pits small,
linear; muffle large; feet-pits in the hind feet; no groin-pits; four
mammae; canine teeth in the males; females hornless. The skull is
characterized by the large sub-orbital fossae which occupy nearly
the whole cheek. The various species--_sub-quadricornutus_ of
Elliot, _iodes_ and _paccerois_ of Hodgson--are but varieties of the
following only Indian species.

NO. 463. TETRACEROS QUADRICORNIS.
_The Four-horned Antelope_ (_Jerdon's No. 227_).

NATIVE NAMES.--_Chowsingha_, _Chowka_. Jerdon also gives _Bherki_,
_Bekra_, and _Jangli-bakra_, but I have also heard these names given
by natives to the rib-faced deer (_Cervulus aureus_); _Bhir-kura_
(the male) and _Bhir_(female) Gondi; _Bhirul_ of Bheels; _Kotri_,
Bustar; _Kond-guri_, Canarese; _Konda-gori_, Telegu (_Jerdon_).
Kinloch also gives _Doda_, Hindi.

HABITAT.--Throughout India, but not in Ceylon or Burmah.

[Illustration: _Tetraceros quadricornis_.]

DESCRIPTION.--A small brownish-bay animal, slightly higher at the
croup than at the shoulder, which gives it a poky look, lighter
beneath and whitish inside the limbs and in the middle of the belly;
fore-legs, muzz