Jungle By-Ways in India 



I fancy we all remember to say a few words 

 after a difficult stalk followed by a miss ! 



Although black buck really live in the open 

 country, i.e. in the great cultivated tracts of the 

 country, they are occasionally to be found in 

 outlying patches of forest in the neighbourhood 

 of dense forest tracts. 



I have noticed in Northern India that they are 

 extremely shy of elephants, and will always clear 



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I missed the buck after all. 



out at once from a piece of forest through which 

 an elephant is beating. On many occasions I 

 have put in an elephant at one end of a small 

 piece of forest and stationed myself at the other. 

 Whilst the elephant is to be heard still at some 

 distance, swaying along in the forest and quite 

 beyond view, the black buck will come to the edge 

 and be off across the open country. It is a curious 

 trait, since animals living in these localities 

 must often see elephants, and we all know that 

 on an elephant one can often get up within a 

 few yards of a sambhar or chitul with impunity. 



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