INDIAN ANTELOPES 



worthy game, owing to the excellent quality of 

 its venison. It is, when at some little distance, 

 easily mistaken for the muntjac (or barking deer), 

 but it is yellower and less ruddy in hue than is the 

 latter, and is also somewhat smaller. 



I have found four-horned antelope both singly 

 and in pairs, and it is obvious from the collections 

 of dung found in any particular place which one 

 of these animals may have chosen as his home, 

 that he returns to the same place for the purpose 

 of defecating a peculiarity which, so far as I am 

 aware, is shared by no other wild animal except 

 the rhinoceros. 



A "500 express hollow bullet makes a terrible 

 mess of one of these little antelopes, but the 

 sportsman has seldom anything very much lighter 

 with him when shooting in the jungles which they 

 inhabit. 



The vernacular names for the four - horned 



antelope are- 

 Hindustani Char-singha, Chou-singha, Jungli- 



buckra. 



Canarese Kard-coorie. 



Telegu Konda-gori. 



Gondi Bhir-kura (male), Bhir (female). 



Note. The names Jungli-buckra and Kard-coorie are 

 in Mysore applied indiscriminately to this animal and 

 to the muntjac (Cervulus aureus}. 



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