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Vernacular names. — Chigari (Kanarese) ; Haran, Krishnamrig (Marabhi); 

 Haran, Kalwit (Dekhani) ; GInka (Waddars and Haran Shikaris). 



[" Not occurring in the immediate vicinity of Dharwar, but in the black 

 cotton soil districts that stretch away to the north-east and south-east 

 they are widely distributed and in many places sufficiently numerous to do 

 a considerable amount of damage to the cotton crops. The does and 

 immature bucks have a considerable resemblance to the Spring Buck of 

 South Africa, and their habits are similar in many ways. But there is 

 something stilted and stiff jointed about the movements of a Black Buck 

 which is quite unlike a Spring Buck, which I consider the more graceful 

 and certainly the swifter of the two." — G.C.S.] 



Gazbila bennbtti. 



The Indian Gazelle. • 



(For Synonymy, see Report No. 1.) 

 S (imm.) 1357. Near Haveri, Dharwar. 

 {See also Reports Nos. 1 and 3.) 

 Vernacular names. — Channachigari, Burari Kiingur ( Kanarese) ; Chin- 

 kara (Marathi and Dekhani). 



Tetkacekos quadbicoknis, Blainv. 



The four-horned, Antelope. 



(For Synonymy, see Report No. 2.) 

 $ 800. Samasgi, S. Dharwar. 



{See also Report No. 2.) 

 Vernacular names. — Kond-kuri, Kan-kuri (Kanarese) ; Jangli-B6kra 

 (Marathi and Dekhani) ; these names are also used for M. vaginalis the 

 Muntjac. 



Sus CBiSTATus, Wagn. 

 The Indian Wild Boar, 

 1839. Sus cristatus, Wagner. Munch. Gel. Anz. ix., p. 435. 

 1843. Sus indicus, Gray. Cat. Mamm. (no description). 

 1847. Sus affinis, Gray. Cat. Ost. Spec, p. 71 . 

 1860. Sus indicus, Blyth. J.A.S.B., xxix,'p. 105. 

 1891. Sus cnstatus, Blanford. Mammalia No. 374. 



9 736, 375, Honkan, S. Dharwar. 

 Vernacular names. — Handi, Karimikka (Kanarese) ; Diikar (Marathi) ; 

 Fundi (Waddars) ; Pandi (Haran Shikaris) ; Suar, Bura Janwar (Dekhani). 

 Blanford points out, though he does not accept, Blyth's separation of 

 three forms, under separate names, of the Indian Wild Pig. Blyth accepts 

 the Malabar form as true cristatus and separates the trans Gangetic pig as 

 bengalensis on account of the less marked constriction of the parietal and 



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