jungle By -Ways in India 



of some of the most interesting animals of the 

 Asiatic Fauna. The heavy but active sambhar 

 (Cervus unicolor), the lumbering awkward nilgai 

 (Portax pictus), so unlike one's conceived notions 

 of an antelope, the beautiful and graceful spotted 

 deer (Cervus axis} or chitul, as it is called up here, 

 the para or hog deer (Cervus porcinus), and the 

 wonderfully built little black buck (Antilope 

 cervicapra), which inhabit the open cultivated 

 plains and are only to be found in the outer 

 fringes of the thick forest. To these must be 

 added the tiny four-horned antelope (Tetracerus 

 quadricornis) and the red-coloured barking deer 

 (Cervulus muntjac), locally called kakar, and 

 known in Southern India as the jungle sheep. 



In some parts one can also include in the above 

 list the glorious antlered barasingha, or swamp 

 deer (Cervus duvaucelli), to secure a heavy fourteen- 

 pointer of which is and must ever be the ambition 

 and aim of every sportsman who has once come 

 across this beautiful deer. 



All the above species of the deer and antelope 

 tribes may appear on the scene in a day's beating 

 in these jungles, and at the close of the beats one 

 may find oneself bemoaning one's ill-luck, anathe- 

 matizing one's bad shooting, or congratulating 

 oneself on having held straight and secured a fine 

 stag or buck of any one or more of them. 



And of course there is always in these jungles, 

 and more especially in the grass jungles, the added 



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