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Black buck

noun

Common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns. Synonyms: Antilope cervicapra, blackbuck.

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"Black buck" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the state and some of the large northern sheets. I am willing to make the try, Major. I've practised down there more than you'd think and it's rotten from the cellar steps to the lightning-rod. Big black buck is sent up for rioting down at Hein's Bucket of Blood dive—stand aside and forget about it—while some poor old kink is sent out to the pen for running into a flock of sleepy hens in the dark, ...

— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess

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... to notes of a somewhat qualified day at Black Buck: two day's dip into sport against time. I got one buck the first day, and could have taken more, they were literally in hundreds: this is how the ...

— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

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... sending in their avant-courriers of ground-swell: six hours more, and the storm which has been sweeping over 'the still- vexed Bermoothes,' and bending the tall palms on West Indian isles, will be roaring through the oak woods of Devon. The old black buck is calling his does with ominous croakings, and leading the way slowly into the deepest coverts of the glens. The stormy petrels, driven in from the Atlantic, are skimming like black swallows over the bay beneath us. Long strings of sea-fowl are flagging on steadily at railroad ...

— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley

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... haunt of wild beasts and wild fowl. The lion has long been extinct and the tiger has practically disappeared. Leopards are to be found in low hills, and sometimes stray into the plains. Wolves are seen occasionally, and jackals are very common. The black buck (Antilope cerricapra) can still be shot in many places. The graceful little chinkara or ravine deer (Gazella Bennetti) is found in sandy tracts, and the hogdeer or parha (Cervus porcinus) near rivers. The nilgai ...

— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie

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