INDIAN ANTELOPES 



clination for flirtation, chasing a member of his 

 own seraglio, or bounding along in the rear of the 

 alarmed herd (for his superior weight enables his 

 wives to outstrip him in speed), he is ever 

 graceful, ever conspicuous, and a perfect Adonis 

 amongst animals. 



Personally I have shot black buck in only two 

 parts of India, viz., a large number in Mysore ; 

 and eight in a single trip of only one whole, and 

 two half-days' shooting, at Point Calimere on the 

 south coast. 



In both of these localities, the horns run very 

 small as compared with the magnificent trophies 

 obtainable in the North- West Provinces, and far 

 better heads are to be found even in the district 

 of Bellary which adjoins Mysore, than in any 

 portion of the latter. 



The biggest horn ever shot by me in Mysore 

 measures only 1 9f inches, and I got that, and others 

 very nearly as long, in the Chitaldroog district of 

 that province. 



In the district of Mysore (so called from the 

 capital town of that name), where I was stationed 

 for seven years, and in which I shot many buck, I 

 never succeeded in bagging a longer horn than 

 17 inches, and I got only two animals with heads 

 attaining that length. The average in that district 

 was about 14 inches. 



Heads measuring even a shade over 28 inches, 

 are reported as having been shot in Northern 

 India, but nothing approaching this extraordinary 

 size has ever been bagged in any part of the South. 



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