Horns normally four, the posterior, which correspond to the ordinary pair found in Cephalophus, placed as in that genus and similar in character, but directed more vertically upwards; anterior pair placed on the front part of the frontals, level with the front of the orbit, much shorter than the posterior pair, and often entirely absent. Female hornless.
Distribution. Peninsula of India.
This genus, the Indian representative of Cephalophus, contains only the Four-horned Antelope and its two-horned subspecies. The latter we follow Mr. Blanford, the latest and best authority on the subject, in considering as not specifically separable; but we have some hesitation in doing so, and have treated it as at any rate deserving the position of a recognizable subspecies.
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XXIV.
Wolf del. Smit lith.
Hanhart imp.
The Four-horned Antelope.
TETRACEROS QUADRICORNIS.
Published by R. H. Porter.