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lightly from the cart, but instead of at once giving chase, he walked quietly towards the 
Antelope, which, being now alarmed, were rapidly increasing their distance. JI began to 
think that he had no intention of pursuing, and the Antelope were nearly two hundred 
yards off, when he gradually increased his speed, and after a few strides bounded after 
them with such amazing velocity that in a few seconds he was in the middle of the now 
flying herd. Passing several small ones, he singled out one of the finest buck, and in 
less time than it takes to describe it buck and Chita rolled over in a cloud of dust. The 
chase had not extended much over three hundred yards. Galloping to the spot, I found 
the buck lying on his back, while the Chita crouched quietly by him with his fangs 
buried in the throat. The keeper quickly came up, terminated the buck’s existence 
with his knife, and catching the blood in a wooden ladle, presented it to the Chita, who 
lapped it up with relish. A haunch was then cut off, and the Chité seizing it bounded 
back into his cart, where he proceeded to devour it at his leisure. The buck was a fine 
one, with twenty-three inch horns.” 
Excellent accounts of the distribution and habits of the Indian Antelope 
have also been lately published in Dr. Blanford’s ‘Mammals of British India,’ 
and in the second volume of ‘Big Game Shooting’ in the Badminton 
Library. In the latter we find described the following curious method 
of getting within close range of the Black-buck as practised in Central 
India :— 
“ A trained Black-buck and doe are taken out, each having a light cord about ten 
yards long attached to it, and the pair are led by an attendant, a light screen about three 
feet square made of grass and leaves with a small hole in the centre being carried by the 
shikari. The whole party moves under cover of a third man on horseback to within 
about three hundred yards of a herd of antelopes. The screen is then planted on a spot 
commanding a good view; the men on foot crouch behind it, and the horseman rides 
slowly off on the flank. The two tame Antelopes are then let out to the full extent of 
‘their lines on one side of the screen, and begin playing round one another. -The master 
buck of the herd, seeing an impertinent intruder on his ground, trots out at once to do 
battle for the doe, but the screen puzzles him, so before coming close he generally circles 
round to try and see behind it. As he moves, the screen is shifted round, the men 
scrambling round on hands and knees behind it, and if there are two Englishmen 
bursting with suppressed laughter in addition to the two natives, all scuffling round as 
the screen moves and trying to keep their legs out of sight, the business is most comical. 
Directly the wild buck stops, the screen and the men behind it must remain motionless. 
Having failed to discover what is behind the screen, the buck, though he is still 
suspicious, feels that he must try to capture that enticing doe, but decides on having a 
look on the other side of the screen first, so back he gallops to the other flank, and the 
scrambling process is repeated. Gradually he comes within range, the rifle is poked 
through the hole in the screen and he gets his quietus. After this the tame Antelopes 
are given a handful of corn, and the party sets out to look for another herd. The tame 
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