EASTERNMOST LIMIT OF THE RANGE OF BLACKBUCK ANTILOPE CERVICAPRA (L.) WITH HISTORIC RECORDS FROM ASSAM AND NORTH BENGAL, INDIA

摘要

The Blackbuck Antilope cervicapra (L.) is an endemic antelope of the Indian subcontinent (Prater 1980; Menon 2003). It occurs in the grasslands and grass-scrub covered countryside amidst cultivations. Outside India, small numbers occur in Nepal and Pakistan (Roberts 1997). There is historic record from western Bangladesh (Asmat 2001). Being an animal of relatively drier opener plains, it apparently does not occur in high rainfall and densely forested areas of the Western Ghats, North-east India and the Himalayas.