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is moreover mucli better tlian tliat of the buck, and is good even up to 

 a stage in pregnancy, easily recognizable througb field-glasses. It is 

 curious bow little this fact is known to sportsmen. But any keeper 

 of an Englisb deer-park will tell you tbe same thing. 



Mr. Blanford mentions one pair of borns twenty-eight inches and 

 three-quarters long, from " Rajputana and Hariana," wHich is a 

 little vague. The longest known to the reviewer were in the posses- 

 sion of the Civil Surgeon, Khandesh, in 1872, and had been shot some- 

 where on what is now the border of ISTasik and Khandesh, between 

 Dhulia and Malegaum. 



Probably, the Civil Surgeon in question, who is a member of this 

 Society, could give the right measurements. They cannot be much 

 less than Mr. Blanford' s maximum. In this Presidency, in 1892, an 

 eighteen-inch pair is worth having, and 20 inches a good pair ; 

 24 inches is an unusual length in most districts. Mr. Blanford's 

 distribution of his black bucks is good ; but he omits Sind, where the 

 Antelope has been naturalized by the Amir of Khairpur. He is wrong, 

 however, in saying that it " never enters forest or high grass, and is 

 but rarely seen amongst bushes." In the early seventies. Antelopes 

 were common in the low-lying forests of Western Khandesh, living 

 in the forest like Chital. They were sometimes driven out of the 

 Babul plantations of the Poona District by the beaters of the Poona 

 Hunt (of which the undersigned was Secretary, and managed the 

 beats). 



And almost every quail-shooter in Gujarat must have seen them 

 put up like hares from grass and crops, and sometimes knocked over 

 with a charge of small shot in the neck. They constantly lie in 

 millet crops, which are nothing, after all, but tall grasses cultivated, 

 and they have been found in sugar-cane gardens. 



He thinks it never drinks, and gives one case of its abundance, 

 where there is no drinking water but from a well on the long sand- 

 spit between the Salt Chilka Lake and the sea. But even there it 

 m.ust rain sometimes. 



There is no doubt that, like most of the group of desert antelopes, 

 it is very independent of water. But it has been known to come to 

 a well at night and drink from the cattle-trough, and even from the 

 puddles of waste water. 



