Illustrations 



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A kakar or barking deer . . 79 



Tracks of kakar or barking deer . 8 1 



Horns of barking deer: Boar's head: A barking deer To face p. 82 



The dainty little mouse deer ... 84 

 The fox started barking at me . .85 



The stag was on the qui i>ive . 9 1 



Overpowered by fear, he took a wild leap for safety . . 96 



Dead sambhar stag . . ..... 97 



Horned black buck doe . . 99 



I faced the bull bison at eighteen paces 101 



Horns of Indian bison or gaur and of the mithan : Lungoor 



monkey . . To face p. 106 



A giant pipal tree with its buttressed silvery trunk . . . 109 



Tracks of Indian bison or gaur . 115 



The bull stopped diagonally on offering a fair shoulder shot 



To face p, 122 



A herd of bison under a fine old mango tree . . . .124 



The elephant stood the very embodiment of vigilance . . 129 

 We ran the bull bison to earth in a bamboo brake . . .132 



He came slowly from behind a clump of bushes To face p. 134 



My first bull bison . . 135 



A seething mass of wildly tossing, brightly gleaming horns . 136 



A cow turned suddenly and fronted us 143 



Head of bison or gaur : The bison country . To face p. 154 

 The wonderful leaps of the black buck . . . . .169 

 He shook his head at me and rolled over dead : Head of nilgai 



or blue bull . ... To face p. 172 



The black buck went off unharmed 175 



Gallop in a lollopy, lumbering fashion across the plain . . 176 



A black buck and doe at play . 179 



I missed the buck after all . 182 



Tracks of black buck . . 183 



Tracks of nilgai . . 190 



There was the bull, standing beneath a twisted mimosa tree . 192 



I sighted on the biggest buck 193 



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