TRACKS AND TRACKING 



antelopes live on the open plains where they are 

 generally hunted by sighting them, and as a 

 sportsman is allowed to kill but one in a season, 

 we will therefore consider only the signs of the 

 old bucks. 



There are but two signs, and these can be con- 

 densed into one, because they are usually found 

 at the same spot: Pawing of ground, and drop- 

 pings. 



The droppings are of similar size, and though 

 more or less connected, always comparatively 

 dry, while from does and fawns they are either 

 dry and scattered, or, if moist, in a lump and 

 always irregular in size ; the cause of which seem- 

 ing phenomenon is a certain amount of glutinous 

 substance in the droppings of the buck. 



The pawing is usually done in old buffalo 

 trails, cattle runways, and roads, or where coal 

 deposits come to the surface making the ground 

 barren of vegetation; where this sign is found, 

 an old buck is always near, even if the locality 

 cannot properly be considered antelope country. 

 Old bucks, before and after rutting season, fre- 

 quently make their habitat in roomy forests or 



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