336 COMMON ANTELOPE, 



had observed the stripes to vary considerably both 

 in number and disposition on different skins. 

 These animals are of an extremely active nature, 

 and leap with extraordinary agility. Dr. Forster 

 assures us that he has seen them clear a fence 

 of ten feet high. They are said to be pretty 

 easily tamed. One was brought from the Cape 

 of Good Hope in the year 1766, and deposited in 

 the menagerie of the Prince of Orange. 



COMMON ANTELOPE. 



Antilope Cervicapra. A. cornibns spiralibus teretibus annuJatis t 



corpore fuhesccntc obumbrato. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 192. 

 Tawny-brown Antelope, white beneath, with round, lyrated, 



and annulated horns. 

 Capra Cervicapra. C. cornibns teretibus dimidinto-anmdatis, 



flcxuobis contortis. Lin. Syst. Nat, p. 96. 

 Gazella Africana, v. Antilope. Charltt. Exerc. p. 67. Raj. 



Quadr. p. 79. n. 4. Grew. Mm. p, 24. 

 Common Antelope. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 89. 



OF this numerous tribe there is perhaps no spe- 

 cies more truly elegant in its appearance than the 

 present, which is a native of many parts of Africa, 

 as well as of India. It is particularly frequent in 

 Barbary. Its general size is somewhat smaller 

 than that of a fallow deer, and its colour is a red- 

 dish tawny brown above, and white below; the 

 insides of the limbs are white, and on the head, 

 back, and outsides of the limbs, the hair is darker 

 than on other parts : the orbits of the eyes are 



