472 MamMatiaA OF INDIA. 
they may easily be stalked and shot. They usually feed only in the 
mornings and evenings, and in the day-time seek more open and 
elevated situations, frequently excavating deep holes in the stony plains, 
in which they lie, with only their heads and horns visible above the 
surface of the ground. It is a curious fact that females are rarely found 
in Chang Chenmo ; | have met with herds of sixty or seventy bucks, but 
have only seen one doe to my knowledge during the three times that I 
visited the valley.” 
GENUS ANTELOPE (vrestrictea). 
Horns in the male only ; abnormal cases of horned females are on 
record, but they only prove the rule. No muffle; sub-orbital sinus 
moderate, somewhat linear; no canines; groin-pits large; feet-pits 
present. In the skull the sub-orbital fossa is large. 
No. 461. ANTELOPE BEZOARTICA. 
The Indian Antelope ( Jerdon’s No. 228). 
Native Names.—JZvig or A@irga, Sanscrit; Harna, Hirun, Harin 
(male) and Airni (female), Hindi; also Ka/wit, Hindi, according to 
Jerdon ; Goria (female) and Xa/a (male), in Tirhoot ; Ka/sar (male) 
and Baoti (female), in Behar; Burefa, in Bhagulpore; Sarout and 
Sasin, in Nepal; Phandayet, Mahrathi (Jerdon). iru and Bamunti- 
hiru, Mahrathi; Chigri, Canarese; Jrri (male), Sedi (female), and 
Jinka, Telegu; Adlai (male) and Gandoli (female), of Baoris. 
Hasirat.—In open plain country throughout India except in Lower 
Bengal and Malabar. In the Punjab it does not cross the Indus, Dr. 
Jerdon says: ‘I have seen larger herds in the neighbourhood of Jalna 
in the Deccan than anywhere else—occasionally some thousands to- 
gether, with black bucks in proportion. Now and then, Dr. Scott 
informs me, they have been observed in the Government cattle-farm 
at Hissar in herds calculated at 8000 to 10,000.” I must say I have 
never seen anything like this, although in the North-west, between 
Aligarh and Delhi, I have noticed very large herds; in the Central 
provinces thirty to forty make a fair average herd, though smaller ones 
are more common. ‘These small parties generally consist of does, and 
perhaps two or three young sandy bucks lorded over by one old black 
buck, who will not allow any other of his colour to approach without 
the ordeal of battle. I have lately heard of them in Assam, but forget 
the precise locality. 
DescrtpTIon.—Form supple and elegant, with graceful curves; the 
neck held up proudly; the head adorned with long, spiral, and closely 
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