Jungle By-Ways in India 



shambling gait, or gallop in a loUopy, lumbering 

 fashion across the plain, the animal he has the 

 greatest similarity to is a coarse Galloway pony. 



In some ways a bull is a handsome beast, 

 with his well-shaped body and clean legs, but his 

 extraordinary high wither spoils his appearance. 

 He has no trophy, since the small pair of black 

 horns the head carries are only some 8-9 inches 

 in length. Baldwin mentions a pair of some loj 

 inches, which would constitute a record. 



The does are light-coloured, but an old bull 

 (they are termed ' bull,' though strictly speaking 

 they should be called ' buck ') is almost blue-black 

 in colour, from whence he gets his name of the 

 blue bull. His coat shines like satin, and as he 

 stands in the sunlight with clean legs planted well 

 apart and head held well up on the look out for 

 danger, there is something good and clean bred 

 about him which rather fetches the lover of horses. 



It is only when he commences to move that 

 disillusionment sets in, and one wonders how 

 such an apparently well set-up beast can possibly 

 have such awkward paces. 



It is probably his curious resemblance to a horse 

 that makes one reluctant to raise a rifle against 

 this timid animal, for up to a certain point they 

 are very timid and shy. This is perhaps due 

 to the fact that they inhabit open grassy plains 

 interspersed with patches of scrub forest and 

 cultivation. 



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