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THE BLACK BUCK OR INDIAN ANTE! OPE. 
Antelope Cervieapra. Native names: Gua (male); Harm , Hind.; Kala 
(male), Goria (female), Tirhoot; Barant Sasia, Nepal ; Barnani Harm, Ooriya ; 
Veliman , Tamil; Chigri , Hoolay-Kerra and Jinki , Canarese; Kalyar (male), 
Hcda (female), Kathiawar; Bureta , Bhagalpur ; Him , Mahr. 
Habitat. —Throughout the plains of India, though very rarely in Bengal. 
They are most abundant in the U. P. Rajputana and the Deccan. 
Period of gestation. —Six months, one or two at a birth. 
Description. —Does and young bucks are yellowish fawn above and white 
below and on the inside of the limbs, the colours being sharply divided. Old 
bucks are blackish brown and white. The horns vary in divergence and 
closeness of spiral: horned females are very rare. 
It affects open plains of short grass and cultivated lands and associates in 
herds. Never enters forests or high grass and rarely affects bushes; it is 
extremely wary in districts where it is much disturbed. Its flesh is excellent, 
it is stalked and shot, run down on horseback and speared, and is the usual 
quarry of the hunting leopard. Its sight and smell are keen and its pace very 
swift. It is a bellicose animal, the bucks fighting continually. 
