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A ravine buck with a broken leg will give a good run to 

 dogs if found in the open, but as a rule the ground these deer 

 frequent is too broken for coursing. 



An unwounded doe was run down by three dogs belonging 

 to officers of the Rifle Brigade in 1876, but on another occasion 

 the writer saw a fawn run clean away from a good dog. Kin- 

 loch describes how the officers of the Guides used to hunt 

 ravine deer with dogs and falcons. 



L. THE FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPE 



( Tetraceros qiiadricomis) 



Native names: generally ' Charsingha,^ * Choka,^ ^ Doda'' ; 

 in Chota Nagpur ' Chdorang'' {Kinloch) 



Four-horned antelopes are found thinly scattered all over 

 India, but, according to Sterndale, not in Ceylon or Burmah. f 

 They are met with in Rajputana, but the writer has never heard 

 of them in the Punjab. 



They generally live alone or in pairs, and frequent bamboo 

 jungle, or the long grass and bushes near forests. 



Their colouring varies a good deal, but it is generally a 

 reddish-brown, paler below the forelegs, and fetlocks dark ; 

 the latter being ringed with pale marks. The female is horn- 

 less. The male has two pairs of short, smooth black horns, 

 the front pair, which is shorter than the other pair, growing 

 almost above the eyes, while the rear pair rises just in front 

 of the ears. The front pair are often mere knobs, and good 

 specimen heads, with the four horns complete, are not easy to 

 get ; in fact, this antelope is such a small animal and sticks so 

 persistently to cover, that the majority of those that are killed 

 are bagged by lucky snap-shots. Sterndale quotes a letter in 

 the ' Asian,' signed ' Bheel,' in which the writer remarks : * It is 

 found in the thick jungles at the foot of the hills. It selects 

 some secluded spot, which it does not desert when disturbed, 

 returning invariably to its hiding-place when the coast is clear.' 

 This peculiarity might well be taken advantage of by any 



