312 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Antelope. 



Antilope Dorcas. Pall. mifc. zool. 6. — Cervicapra. Houttyn, Linn. ed. belg. iii. t. 24. f. 1. — 



Klipfpringer, or Springbock. Sparrman, voy. ii. 224. pi. 5 White-faced Antilope. Penn. hift. 



of quad. n. 3 7. 



Inhabits the countries to the north of the Cape of Good Hope. — This fpecies is about five feet four 

 inches long, and three feet high at the fhoulders : It runs with great velocity, and makes aftonifhing 

 bounds, even on the moft precipitous and rocky places, fo that it is caught with great difficulty, though 

 its flefh is much efteemed r The horns are about fixteen inches long, they bend outwards in the 

 middle, and approach at the points ; on the males the lower third of each horn has fix or fe- 

 ven rings, and the reft is fmooth, while on the females the horns have no rings ; the ears are about 

 feven inches long : The face is white ; the cheeks and neck are bright bay ; the back is brown afh 

 colour mixed with red ; the fides, flanks, and fhoulders are deep brown ; the belly, rump, and mid- 

 dle of the back behind, are white ; a dark brown lift begins at the back of the neck, on the ridge of 

 the back, which foon divides and reaches down the outer fides of the hind thighs; and a fimilar band, 

 from the fhoulder joint, divides the fides from the belly, and extends down the outfide of each fore 

 leg ; the tail is about feven inches long, and is terminated with feme Iongifh black hairs ; the legs 

 are flender, and the hoofs are fhort. 



Dr Gmelin quotes the Koba of BufFon and Mountain Antelope of RufTel as fynonimes of this fpe- 

 cies, but, at the fame time, denotes his uncertainty by a point of interrogation, and fays, from this 

 circumftance, that it is perhaps found in hither Afia ; but, on the authority of Mr Pennant, I have 

 referred the Koba to another fpecies to be defcribed hereafter, and it is hardly to be fuppofed that 

 the fame fpecies fhould be found near Aleppo, and in the fouthern extremity of Africa, without ex- 

 ifting in the intermediate places ; befides the Count de BufFon refers Rufiel's animal to the Pafan, or 

 Egyptian Antelope. — T.. 



688 12. Springer Antelope. — Antilope fait ans.. 



The horns are flender, twice contorted, and annulated half way : The general colour 

 is a pale brown, the cheft, belly, infides of the limbs, buttocks, and half way up 

 the back, are white - y with a broad chefnut coloured band along the fides. Penn. 

 hift. of quad. n. 35. MafTon, in Phil. Tranf. lxvi. 310. 



This animal, if different from the White-faced, fpecies, inhabits at the Cape of Good Hope. — It is 

 lefs than a Roe, and weighs about fifty pounds ; it migrates annually from the interior parts of the 

 country in fmall herds, continues for two' or three months near the Cape, and then goes ofF towards 

 the north, in herds of many thoufands; fometimes, generally after an interval of feven or eight years, 

 this fpecies comes from the north in flocks of many hundred thoufands, probably compelled by ex- 

 ceffive drought, and, fpreading over CafFraria, defolates the whole country, hardly leaving a blade 

 of grafs ; they are attended in their migrations by Lions, Hyaenas, and other beafts of prey. The 

 face, cheeks, chin, nofe, and fore part of the neck are white ; with a dufky line, which palFes from 

 the bafe of each horn down the fide of the facej involving the orbits, to the corner of the mouth; the 

 moft remarkable part of its defcription is, that, when alarmed, it has the power of expanding the 

 white ftripe above the tail into a circular form, which returns again to its linear form when the ani- 

 mal is at reft. After all, it feems uncertain if there be any difference between this animal and the 

 White-faced Antelope immediately preceding ; for, in the form of their horns and difpofition of the 

 dark coloured bands, they exactly agree. — T. 



