This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...to form a group by themselves the species changed its name to Gazella bennetti. By many sportsmen this gazelle is commonly spoken of by its Hindustani title of chinkara, and no better name could be desired; but, unfortunately, it has also acquired the name of "ravine deer," which is one of the worst misnomers ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...to form a group by themselves the species changed its name to Gazella bennetti. By many sportsmen this gazelle is commonly spoken of by its Hindustani title of chinkara, and no better name could be desired; but, unfortunately, it has also acquired the name of "ravine deer," which is one of the worst misnomers in existence, as if there are two groups of animals which ought not to be confounded, they are antelopes and deer. The chinkara is a more typical gazelle than either of the species hitherto described; that is to say, it agrees with the majority of the members of that group in leading characters, so that it has to be distinguished by comparatively minute details, but as the chinkara is the only one of the more typical gazelles inhabiting India, there is no difficulty in its identification. From both the goa and the goitred gazelle the chinkara differs in that the doe is furnished with horns. The fact that the horns of the bucks do not turn in at the tips serves at once to distinguish the species from the goitred gazelle (from which it also differs by the absence of the swelling in the throat of the bucks), while the want of a large white tail-patch (to say nothing of the difference in the curvature of the horns) separates it from the goa. In size this species is approximately equal to the Persian race of the goitred gazelle, the height being about 23 or 24 inches at the withers and 26 inches at the rump; while a buck weighs about 50 lbs., and a doe from i0 to i5 lbs. less. Although from i0 to i2 inches is the average length of the horns of bucks, and their basal girth about 4 inches, specimens respectively measuring i4A and i5 inches in length are recorded, the longer of these having a basal circumference of 5 inches. Female horns...
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