chinkaran.
An Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti.
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chinkara1860
ravine deer1867
ravine buck1877
1860 Chambers's Encycl. I. 287/2 The Chikara and some other Indian species are distinguished by two additional rudimentary horns in front of the ordinary horns.
1911 Encycl. Sport & Games (new ed.) I. 411 The Chickara, Chinkara, Ravine Deer, or Indian Gazelle (G. bennettii) [sic], is found throughout the plains of India.
1924 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 242/1 Neither I nor the Kumar had yet stalked black buck or chinkara in the flaming dâk jungle.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 156/1 The gazelle (Gazella bennetti), the chikara, or ‘ravine deer’, of sportsmen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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