Game Animals of India, etc. 



with the majority of the members of that group in 

 leading characters, so that it has to be distinguished by 

 comparatively minute details, but as the chinkara is the 

 only one of the more typical gazelles inhabiting India, 

 there is no difficulty in its identification. 



From both the goa and the goitred gazelle the 

 chinkara differs in that the doe is furnished with horns. 

 The fact that the horns of the bucks do not turn in at 

 the tips serves at once to distinguish the species from 

 the goitred gazelle (from which it also differs by the 

 absence of the swelling in the throat of the bucks), 

 while the want of a large white tail-patch (to say 

 nothing of the difference in the curvature of the horns) 

 separates it from the goa. 



In size this species is approximately equal to the 

 Persian race ot the goitred gazelle, the height being 

 about 23 or 24 inches at the withers and 26;^ inches at 

 the rump ; while a buck weighs about 50 lbs., and a 

 doe from 10 to 15 lbs. less. Although from 10 to 12 

 inches is the average length of the horns of bucks, and 

 their basal girth about 4 inches, specimens respectively 

 measuring 14^ and 15 inches in length are recorded, 

 the longer of these having a basal circumference of 

 5 inches. Female horns are smaller, 8 inches being 

 apparently the longest on record. 



In bucks the horns are nearly straight, showing a 

 small lateral divergence when viewed from the front, 

 but with a slight S-like curvature when seen from 

 the side, with the tips bending somewhat forwards. 

 Generally the number of ridges on each horn is fifteen 

 or sixteen, but there are seventeen or eighteen in the 

 specimen shown in fig. 31 ; and it is stated that 

 there may be as many as twenty-five. In the female 

 of the Indian race the horns are devoid of ridges. 



The face has distinct glands, opening by small 

 apertures below each eye ; and the knees are furnished 

 with the usual tufts of stiff hairs. 



The chinkara has the usual gazelle face-markings 



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