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name or in such a manner as to admit of its being 
recognised, introduces it incidentally as one of the 
beasts which were hunted by the Mogul Emperor 
Aurung-zebe during his progress from Delhi to his 
summer retreat in Cashmeer. It would seem from the 
numbers of which he speaks as being sometimes taken 
on those occasions, to be very abundant ; but we have 
not, up to the present time, any particular account of 
its habits in a state of nature. In captivity it is gentle 
and familiar, licking the hands of those who offer it 
bread, and suffering itself to be played with, not only 
without shyness, but with evident pleasure. There are, 
however, seasons at which it becomes capricious in its 
temper. When meditating an attack it falls suddenly 
upon its fore knees, shuffles onwards in that posture 
until it has advanced to within a few paces of the 
object of its irritation, and then darts forward with a 
powerful spring, and butts with its head in the most 
determined manner. Its walk is awkward in conse- 
quence of the comparative shortness of its hind legs, 
and the width to which it extends them ; but in run- 
ning this defect is scarcely perceptible. Lord Olive's 
original specimens several times produced young ; but 
we are not aware that the breed has been continued, or 
that the same success has attended their introduction 
in other quarters. 
