Illustrations 



VAC.U 



A kakar or barking deer 79 



Tracks of kakar or barking deer . 8 1 



Horns of barking deer ; Boar's head: A barking deer To face p. 82 

 The dainty little mouse deer . . : .84 



The fox started barking at me . . 85 



The stag was on the qui vive . ... .91 



Overpowered by fear, he took a wild leap for safety . . 96 



Dead sambhar stag . . -97 



Horned black buck doe . . . . -99 



I faced the bull bison at eighteen paces loi 



Horns of Indian bison or gaur and of the mithan ; Lungoor 



monkey . . . . . To face p. 106 



A giant pipal tree with its buttressed silvery trunk . . . 109 

 Tracks of Indian bison or gaur . . . . . .115 



The bull stopped diagonally on offering a fair shoulder shot 



To face p. 122 

 A herd of bison under a fine old mango tree . . .124 



The elephant stood the very embodiment of vigilance . . 129 

 We ran the bull bison to earth in a bamboo brake . . .132 

 He came slowly from behind a clump of bushes To face p. 134 



My first bull bison . . 135 



A seething mass of wildly tossing, brightly gleaming horns . 136 



A cow turned suddenly and fronted us 143 



Head of bison or gaur : The bison country To face p. 154 



The wonderful leaps of the black buck 169 



He shook his head at me and rolled over dead : Head of nilgai 



or blue bull . . . To face p. \T2 



The black buck went oflf unharmed . . . .175 



Gallop in a loUopy, lumbering fashion across the plain . . 176 

 A black buck and doe at play . 1 79 



I missed the buck after all . 182 



Tracks of black buck . .183 



Tracks of nilgai . . .... 190 



There was the bull, standing beneath a twisted mimosa tree . 192 

 I sighted on the biggest buck . • ■ • I93 



