CHAPTER IV 



Black buck — Marvellous leaping powers — Appearance and size of 

 horns — Horned females — A gay Lothai-io — Habits — Methods of 

 shooting buck — Stalking — A nasty stalk and a miss — Dislike of 

 elephants — Tracks of buck — Blue bull or nilgai — Peculiar gait — 

 Horns — Habits — Easy to shoot — Importance of conciliating villa- 

 gers near your shooting-grounds — A morning's stalk— Appearance 

 of nilgai tracks — Death of the bull. 



BLACK BUCK 



THOSE who have watched these Httle 

 antelopes in their homes on the great 

 plains of India will readily award the 

 palm for lightness, beauty, and grace to 

 the black buck amongst all the popularly so- 

 called deer tribe ; though, of course, the black 



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