BLACK BUCK and CHINKARA 
(Antelope cervuapra and Gazella bennetti) 
The Black Buck (left) is the most abundant of Indian antelopes. 
Only the males are equipped with horns. Color differences between the 
sexes of animals do not occur frequently and are present among the 
groups in this collection only in the Black Buck, the Nilgai and the 
Gibbon. 
The Chinkara, or Indian Gazelle, represented in the group by the 
two animals at the right, a male and a female, is less gregarious than 
the Black Buck and usually runs in groups of from two to six. Unlike 
Other Asiatic Gazelles, the female has horns. Both the Black Buck and 
the Chi nkara are found in most parts of India, but are unknown in 
the country east of the Bay of Bengal. 
For permission to collect the Chinkara, the Museum is indebted to Maior-Gencral 
Hi-^Highncss the Maharajah of Bikanir, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., A D C ' 
Animals by Walter Escherich and John W. Hope 
Background by William R. Leigh 
