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Bengal and in Assam. It is generally found in small 
herds, and is essentially a lover of open uncultivated 
districts, and both sexes have horns. The name ‘ Tiska 5 
is applied to it by the Canarese, from the habit it has 
of stamping with its feet when irritated but this habit is 
not peculiar to the Gazelle, as it characterises many other 
wild ruminants, more especially some of the deer, which 
also use their fore-limbs as formidable organs of offence, 
stamping and striking with them ; the hornless females 
even becoming formidable opponents under such circum¬ 
stances. An incident that happened in the Gardens, 
a few years ago, may be mentioned here in illustration of 
this. Mr. Schwendler, who always took a lively personal 
interest in the welfare and comfort of the animals, was on 
one occasion superintending the transference of the female 
Wapiti from one paddock to another, when she sud¬ 
denly reared, and struck him down with her fore feet 
and commenced battering him with them until she was 
driven off. 
The next paddock contains a very handsome African 
species, viz.. Grant’s Gazelle, Gazella granti, distinguished 
by its very handsome long lyrate horns which occur in both 
sexes. It is a rare species and only a few specimens have 
reached Europe. It was discovered by the African explorers, 
Captain Speke and Colonel Grant in Ugogo. The African 
continent is distinguished from all other regions of the globe, 
by the great variety of its Gazelles and Antelopes. 
In the neighbouring enclosure will be found some ex¬ 
amples of that remarkably graceful animal, the Indian 
Antelope, Antilope cervicapra , which abounds on the plains 
of India, of which it is a highly characteristic species, as 
it is not found in any other country in the world, not even 
