Horns 



The tracks of buck are larger and more pointed 

 than those of the chink or the 4-horned antelope, 

 and, of course, infinitely smaller than those of the 

 nilgai, the only other Indian Antelope. 



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Tracks of buck. 



THE BLUE BULL OR NILGAI 



Of all the Indian antelope, the heavy, clumsy- 

 built nilgai (Portax pidus) or blue bull, as he is 

 popularly called owing to his peculiar colouring, 

 is one of the most curious. Very few points of 

 either, the antelope or deer tribe has he about him. 

 As one watches him trot with his awkward, 



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