CONTENTS 



PART I.— ANTLERS 



CHAPTER I 

 Shooting in Northern India jungles — The Christmas shooting 

 camp — The denizens of the jungle — Beautiful scenery — A 

 sportsman's paradise — The ' Jungle Eye '— Grass jungle and 

 tree forest — Chitul, pig and sambhar — Elephant's dislike of pig 

 — Kakar and black buck — Dislike of buck for elephants — A 

 lucky shot — Shooting off an elephant — Bees and ant worries 

 — Life in the upper forest Pa-ge i 



CHAPTER II 

 Beating in Northern Indian jungles — How to beat — Off for a 

 day's beating — A blue bull — Shooting before the beat starts 

 — The beat commences — A herd of chitul — Pig — Wiliness of 

 the old peacock — Jungle fowl — A sambhar stag — Wariness of 

 the old stags — The sambhar breaks out — Death of the stag — 

 The lunch-carrier — Social amenities ij 



CHAPTER III 



Barasingha and chitul — Barasingha does — Barasingha, chitul, 



and sambhar stags — A herd of barasingha breaking cover to 



graze — The old stag leads the way— Unrest of does — The 



herd on the alert — The alarm — A good barasingha stag — Size 



