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had a little bullock which formed part of some loot at Banda—a very 
handsome little bull, easy to ride and steady under fire—and I found him 
most useful in stalking black buck and gazelle. 
When alarmed, the cizkara stamps its foot and gives a sharp little 
hiss. It is generally found in small herds of four or five, but often 
singly. Jerdon, however, says that in the extreme North-west he had 
seen twenty or more together, and this is corroborated by Kinloch. 
They are sometimes hunted by hawks and dogs combined, the 
churrug (Falco sacer) being the hawk ususally employed, as mentioned 
both by Kinloch and Hodgson, writing of opposite ends of the great 
Himalayan chain. ‘The hawk stoops at the head of its quarry and con- 
fuses it, whilst the dogs, who would otherwise have no chance, run up 
and seize it. 
The poor little gazelle has also many other enemies — jackals and 
wolves being amongst the number. Captain Baldwin, in his interesting 
book, writes : “Like other antelopes, the little ravine-deer has many 
enemies besides man. One day, when out with my rifle, I noticed an 
old female gazelle stamping her feet, and every now and then making 
that hiss which is the alarm note of the animal. It was not I that was 
the cause of her terror, for I had passed close to her only a few minutes 
before, and she seemed to understand by my manner that I meant no 
harm ; no, there was something else. I turned back, and, on looking 
down a ravine close by, saw a crafty wolf attempting a stalk on the 
mother and young one. Another day, at Agra, a pair of jackals joined 
in the chase of a wounded buck.” Brigadier-General McMaster also re- 
lates how he and two friends, whilst coursing, watched for a long time four 
jackals trying to force one of a small herd of young bucks to separate 
from the rest. ‘The gazelles stood in a circle, and maintained their 
ground well by keeping their heads very gallantly outwards to their foes, 
until at length, seeing us, both sides made off. We laid the greyhounds 
into and killed one of the jackals.” 
No. 457. GAZELLA FUSCIFRONS. 
The Baluchistan Gazelle, 
Hasitat.—The deserts of Jalk between Seistan and Baluchistan. 
DEScRIPTION.—* Central facial band strongly marked, grizzled black ; 
light facial streak grey, fairly definite, as is also the blackish dark facial 
streak ; cheeks and anterior of neck grey ; back of the neck, back, sides, 
haunches and legs sandy; lateral streaks wanting; belly and rump 
whitish ; knee-brushes long, black ; ears very long; horns (of female 
only known) strongly annulated, bending forwards and very slightly 
inwards at the tips ""(Szr V. Brooke, ‘P. Z. S.,’ 1873, p. 545). 
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