322 HARNESSED ANTELOPE. 



It is a native of Africa, and is known to the 

 Dutch residents at the Cape of Good Hope by 

 the name of Klipspringer. It inhabits the high- 

 est and most inaccessible parts of the rocky moun- 

 tains beyond the Cape ; leaping with surprising 

 agility, from crag to crag, over the most tremen- 

 dous abysses. Its size is that of a Roebuck, and 

 its colour pale yellowish tawny, accompanied with 

 a very slight greenish tinge : the horns are quite 

 strait, slender, upright, and sharp -pointed : they 

 are slightly wrinkled at the base, and are about five 

 inches in length. The female is said to be desti- 

 tute of horns, and has the head marked by some 

 black or dusky streaks : the tail is extremely short, 

 so as to be scarce visible. The flesh of the Klip- 

 springer is much esteemed as an article of food. 

 The Count de Buifon, in his sixth supplemental 

 volume, seems to consider this species as a variety 

 of the Nagor or Red Antelope. 



HARNESSED ANTELOPE. 



Antilope Scripta. A. cornibus subulatis rectis cantortis, carporis 

 strigi'i, albis decussatin. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel.p. 191. 



Chesnut-coloured Antelope, with white crossed stripes on the 

 sides, and strait tapering wreathed horns. 



Le Guib. Buff. 12. p. 305. 327. pi. 40, 4 1./. 1. 



Harnessed Antelope. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 81. 



THIS, which is numbered among the smaller 

 Antelopes, is of an elegant tawny chesnut-colour 

 both above and below; each side of the body 



