SHEEP AND GOAT KIND. 



THE GAZELLES. 



THE Gazelles, of which there are several kinds, 

 can with propriety be referred neither to the goat 

 nor the deer, and yet they partake of both na- 

 tures. Like the goat, they have hollow horns 

 that never fall, which is otherwise in the deer; 

 they have a gall-bladder, which is found in the 

 goat, and not in the deer ; and, like that animal, 

 they feed rather upon shrubs than grassy pasture. 

 On the other hand, they resemble the roebuck 

 in size and delicacy of form ; they have deep pits 

 under the eyes like that animal ; they resemble 

 the roebuck in the colour and nature of their 

 hair ; they resemble him in the bunches upon 

 their legs, which only differ in being upon the 

 fore-legs in these, and on the hind-legs in the 

 other. They seem, therefore, to be of a middle 

 nature between these two kinds ; or to speak 

 with greater truth and precision, they form a dis- 

 tinct kind by themselves.* 



The distinguishing marks of this tribe of ani- 

 mals, by which they differ both from the goat and 

 the deer, are these : their horns are made diffe- 

 rently, being annulated or ringed round, at the 

 same time that there are longitudinated depres- 

 sions running from the bottom to the point. They 

 have bunches of hair upon their fore-legs ; they 

 have a streak of black, red, or brown, running 

 along the lower part of their sides, and three 



[* This tribe of animals is now generally diktinguiihcd by the common 

 name of Antelope. ] 



