Jungle By-Ways in India 



a great deal of beauty in it, although a decent horn 

 with its handsome rings will not measure more 

 than 13-14 inches in length, and forms a delicate 

 and beautiful little trophy. 



Both the males and females are horned, unlike the 

 black buck, where the female is hornless, except in 

 the case of a freak. The horns of the buck are 

 straight, and have usually about fifteen or sixteen 

 rings in them. The horns of the female are ringless. 



A record head of 15 inches comes from Raj- 

 putana. The average horn measurement may be 

 taken at 9 inches. 



The Indian gazelle is light chestnut in colour 

 above, both males and females, the sides, but- 

 tocks, chin, breast, and lower parts being white, 

 the tail black, and knees dark brown. The face is 

 dark rufous, with a white streak down it. 



The little chink is widely distributed, though 

 perhaps not so generally as the black buck. He 

 is to be found from south of the Kistna in Madras 

 right up into the North- West, and extending into 

 the plains of Baluchistan. Unlike the black buck, 

 however, it is seldom found near cultivation, or on 

 alluvial lands. Its habitat par excellence is the 

 desert tracts of the country, where it is to be found 

 in small parties in ravines and broken ground, or 

 out in the sandy desert amongst the sand-hills, 

 where it feeds upon the coarse herbage or on the 

 leaves of the desert shrubs. He is, perhaps, par- 

 ticularly abundant in the great desert tracts of 



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