Game Animals of India, etc. 



Changchenmo ; and General Macintyre likewise tells of 

 having seen mixed herds. Owing to the reluctance of 

 sportsmen to shoot them, specimens of female chiru are 

 rare in collections. 



The writer's own experience of the difficulty of 

 getting within range of chiru on the Changchenmo flats 

 is confirmed by General Kinloch, who states that he 

 frequently found it a good plan to drive them. The 

 banks above these flats are very steep, and as it is only 

 in certain places that the chiru can ascend them, if the 

 sportsman places himself in the most favourable of 

 these paths, and sends a native to drive the game 

 towards him, he will stand a chance of getting a shot, 

 when it would be impossible by stalking. 



July and August are the best months tor shooting 

 in Changchenmo, as the river-flats are then free from 

 snow and carry an abundant crop of grass, to which the 

 chiru descend for grazing in the morning and evening. 

 In the early part of the summer, according to the 

 observations of the last-named sportsman, the chiru 

 apparently frequent the higher and more exposed plains 

 and slopes, on which the snow cannot lie. As the snow 

 which has accumulated during the winter on the river- 

 flats melts, the antelopes gradually descend. At no 

 time of the year do they frequent precipitous ground. 

 After their morning feed on the flats in summer, they 

 seek higher and more exposed situations in which to 

 pass the day until it is time to descend again for the 

 evening meal. When reposing for the day, they are 

 reported to excavate deep hollows in the stony ground, 

 in which they lie with only their heads and horns 

 exposed to view. 



Like all Tibetan animals, chiru appear to depend as 

 much on sight as on smell to warn them of the approach 

 of enemies. According to Brian Hodgson, who seems 

 to have derived his information from native reports, 

 chiru pair in winter, and the does give birth to their 

 fawns (of which there is but one at a time) in the 



