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lar localities as long as their position is tenable, or until they fall, 

 victims to their temerity. 



" It also appears as if some spots were so inviting, that imme- 

 diately they become vacant by the death of one occupant, another 

 individual of the same species will come from some unknown 

 locality, and re-occupy the ground. Thus it is with the ourebi, 

 which will stop in the immediate vicinity of villages, and on hills and 

 in valleys, where it is daily making hair-breadth escapes from its 

 persevering enemy — man. 



VIGILANCE IN ANTELOPE HUNTING. 



'' When day after day a hunter has scoured the country, and 

 apparently slain every ourebi within a radius of ten miles, he has 

 but to wait for a few days, and upon again taking the field he will 

 find fresh specimens of this graceful little antelope bounding over 

 the hills around him. It is generally found in pairs, inhabiting 

 the plains, and when pursued, trusts to its speed, seeking no shelter 

 either in the bush or the forest. Its general habitation is among the 

 long grass which remains after a plain has been burned, or on the 

 sheltered side of a hill, among rocks and stones. 



" Its modes of progression, when alarmed or disturbed, is very 

 beautiful. It gallops away with great rapidity for a few yards, and 

 then bounds several feet in the air, gallops on, and bounds again. 

 These leaps are made for the purpose of examining the surrounding 

 country, which it is enabled to do from its elevated position in the 

 air. 



** Sometimes, and especially when any suspicious object is only 

 indistinctly observed in the first bound, the ourebi will make several 

 successive leaps, and it then looks almost like a creature possessed 

 of wings, and having the power of sustaining itself in the air. 



" If, for instance, a dog pursues one of these antelopes, and 

 follows it through long grass, the ourebi will make repeated leaps, 

 and by observing the direction in which its pursuer is advancing, 

 will suddenly change its own course, and thus escape from view. In 

 descending from these leaps the ourebi comes to the ground on its 

 hind feet. 



