Chousingha, or Four-horned Antelope 



Most sportsmen say that the flesh of the chousingha 

 is dry and tasteless, although it may be improved by 

 being well larded with mutton fat ; but Dr. Blanford, 

 wrote of it more favourably, although admitting that 

 it is much inferior to that of the chinkara or the 

 blackbuck. 



THE BLACKBUCK, OR INDIAN ANTELOPE 



(^Antilope cervicapra) 



Native Names. — Ena (male), Harina and Mirga, 

 Sanscrit ; Haran or Harna (male). Rami 

 (female), Kalwit (female) and Mrig^ Hindu- 

 stani ; Kala (male), Goria (female), in Tirhoot ; 

 Kalsar (male), Baoti (female), in Behar ; Bureta 

 IN Bhagalpur ; Barant and Sasin, Nepalese ; 

 Alali (male), Gandoli (female), Baori ; Badu, 

 Ho KoL ; Bamani-haran, Uria and Mahrathi ; 

 Phandayat^ Mahrathi ; Kutsar^ Korku ; Veli- 

 man^ Tamil ; Irri (male), Ledi^ and Jinkar, 

 Telegu ; Chigri and Hule-kara^ Canarese. 



(Plate v, fig. 5) 



Although now in such familiar use as to be an 

 English word, the name antelope appears originally 

 to have been employed to denote a fabulous or semi- 

 fabulous animal ; Eustathius, in the fourth century 

 of our era, alluding by this name to an imaginary 

 creature dwelling on the banks of the Euphrates, 

 which was reported to entangle itself in bushes with 

 its horns, and to saw down trees with the same weapons. 

 As to the origin of the name there is some degree 

 of doubt, but it has been suggested that it is a deriva- 

 tion from Pantholops^ the old Coptic title for the 

 mysterious unicorn. Whatever be its derivation and 

 origin, it is certain that by early English writers and 



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