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together. Usually I think there are several bucks if the herd is large, 

 but the young expelled bucks are also often found in separate herds. 

 Single individuals are also of common occurrence. 



Mr. Elliot says, " When two bucks fight they butt like rams, retiring 

 a little and striking the foreheads together with great violence. When 

 alarmed, it utters a sort of hiss by blowing through the nose, and stamps 

 with the fore-feet ; whence its Canarese name, ' Tiska. } " 



Dr. Scott informs me that in Hurriana, during the rainy season, a sort 

 of maggot or bot is constantly found under the skin of the Gazelle, only 

 near the root of the tail. It was never observed on the Antelope. 



The Gazelle is occasionally hunted by dogs with the aid of the Saker 

 falcon (Falco Cherrug\ which strikes the antelope on the head, and con- 

 fuses it, so that the dogs come up and catch it. Without this aid, dogs 

 have very little chance, though now and then I have known one pulled 

 down. It is considered better eating than the black buck. 



Gazella Christii, Gray, from Sindh and Cutch, is said to be paler in 

 colour, and with the horns more slender and smaller than in the Indian 

 gazelle, and with the tips abruptly bent inwards. This is joined by 

 Blyth to Bennettii. I have seen one or two heads of gazelles considered 

 distinct from the chikdra, called " the desert antelope," smaller, and with 

 the horns more bent forwards. I only looked on them at the time as a 

 dwarf or stunted chikdra, but it is possible that there may be another 

 species extending from Beloochistan across Sindh into the plains of Raj- 

 pootana, either G. sub-gutturosa or G, Christii, if distinct from Bennettii. 

 Indeed, Mr. Blyth, in a note, p. 172 of his Catalogue (transposed with 

 another on the opposite page), says, " An animal marked Gazella Christii, 

 Gray, in the London United Service Museum, appeared to me to be 

 G. sub-gutturosa. It was labelled from Sindh, but might have been 

 brought thither from beyond the passes." 



Gazella Dorcas of Arabia, to which Blyth unites A. Arabica, G. Cora, 

 Hevella, and Corinna of H. Smith, is sometimes brought alive to this 

 country, and has been considered by some to be really found in Western 

 India. Mr. Blyth, in a note, p. 173,* Cat. Mammalia Asiatic Society's 

 Museum, says, " After elaborate study of these specimens, I have been 

 obliged to bring all of them together, and suspect that the whole of the 

 animals (i. e., specimens in the museum that had died in captivity) had 

 been brought to India from Aden and Muskat." 



* This note, attached to G. Bennettii, has been, transposed with another on the 

 opposite page, under 0. Dorcas. 



