Horns 



Central India, Sind, and Rajputana. This little 

 antelope is said never to drink. 



You will find that when stalking him, although 

 he is not particularly shy or wary, he exhibits a 

 curious restlessness, always moving on, and when 

 really startled goes off hke the wind in the beauti- 

 ful leaps and bounds affected by the gazelles. 



A chinkara buck. 



This restlessness is the chief difficulty to be faced 

 in stalking him — this and the fact that his colour- 

 ing is so near to that of the desert sand and his 

 natural surroundings, that he becomes exceed- 

 ingly difficult to ' pick up ' when he has gone 

 anything over loo yards ; and it is a common 

 thing for a herd of these little antelope to run 

 clean out of sight, simply and solely due to the 

 fact of their colouring so closely resembling that 

 of their surroundings. 



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