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THE SPRI] 



Antilope euchore. 



PLATE XXVII. 



Antilope euchore of Authors Springbock of trfc'Dutch 

 Colonists. 



" This 18 one of the most beautiful of the Antelopes 

 of Southern Africa, and is certainly one of the most 

 numerous. The plain afforded no other object to fix 

 the attention, and even if it had presented many, I 

 should not readily have ceased admiring these elegant 

 animals, or have been diverted from watching their 

 manners. It was only occasionally that they took 

 those remarkable leaps which have been the origin of 

 their name ; but when moving or grazing at leisure, 

 they walked or trotted like other Antelopes, or as the 

 common deer. When pursued or hastening their 

 pace, they frequently took an extraordinary bound, 

 rising with curved or elevated backs, generally to the 

 height of eight feet, and appearing as if about to take 

 flight. Some of the herds moved by us almost with- 

 in musket-shot ; and I observed that, in crossing the 

 beaten road, the greater number cleared it by one of 

 those flying leaps." Two thousand of this beautiful 

 reature were conjectured to form the above mentionad 



