1867.] Mr. W. T. Blanford's Zoological Notes. 197 



antelopes do drink in places, that I cannot absolutely assert that they 

 do not, although I suspect their visits to the edges of streams and 

 tanks are rather for the purpose of feeding on the green grass growing 

 there than for drinking. As regards the Chinkara or Indian gazelle, 

 I quite believe that it never drinks. I have seen it in the deserts of 

 Sindh* in places where the only water for 20 miles around was procured 

 from wells ; and in places in Western and Central India where, in the 

 hot weather, the only water is obtained from small pools remaining in 

 the beds of streams, and around which the tracks of almost every 

 animal in the forest may be seen, I never yet saw the very peculiarly 

 formed tracks of the gazelle, although it frequently abounded in the 

 neighbourhood. The four horned antelope, on the other hand, drinks 

 habitually. I have seen it doing so, and its tracks are constantly to 

 be found at water holes. The Nylgai drinks, but not, I think, 

 habitually, except in the hot weather. 



8. The Bara Singha, Rucervus Duvaucellii. For some remarks on 

 the geographical distribution of this species see further on, under the 

 jungle fowl. The localities given by Mr. Blythf are Upper Bengal ; 

 valley of Nepal; Assam; Nerbudda territory; Eastern Sunderbuns. 

 This list requires slight modification. The animal occurs, though 

 scarce, in Beerbhoom, and I believe, here and there throughout the 

 Chota-Nagpoor country, Sirgooja and Chuttcesguih, and it abounds 

 in Bustar, as I have lately learned from Captain Glasfurd, the Deputy 

 Commissioner of Sironcha. It is to be found about Umarkantak, the 

 source of the Nerbudda, and in Mundla, but with one exception, to 

 be presently noticed, not further to the west, and it is unknown 

 throughout the greater portion of the Nerbudda valley. Generally 

 the limits of its range are very nearly those which I have indicated 

 for the wild buffalo. 



Pachydermata. 



9. The Indian wild pigs. Sus scropha ? 



Mr. Blyth has pointed out (J. A. S. B. XKIX, 105) distinctions in 

 the form of the skulls of wild pigs in India, but he has not referred to 



* The Sindh species may be distinct. 



f Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, The 

 localities given by Mr. Blyth are in general thoroughly trustworthy, so far as my 

 experience goes. I am therefore the more anxious to correct them where any 

 improvement is possible, a task ouly practicable to those who like myself havo 

 had opportunities for extensive travelling in India. 



