THE WHITE-FOOTED ANTELOPE. 



on the chefl, which extends between the fore legs ; each fore foot is prettily 

 marked with one white fpot, and each hind foot with two : the tail is long, 

 and tufted at the extremity with black hairs, The general colour of the 

 animal is a dark grey. Its height, to the top of the moulders, is about four 

 feet. The foregoing defcription refers to the male, which is the animal 

 reprefented in the engraving. The female differs in a few particulars. Her 

 general colour is a pale brown ; me has no horns, and each foot is adorned 

 with three tranverfe bands of black and two of white, placed alternately ; 

 me generally produces one young one at a birth, and fometimes two ; me has 

 four nipples, and is fuppofed to go nine months with young. 



The late Sir Afhton Lever had one of thefe animals alive at Leicefter 

 Houfe, where we have often feen it. It was gentle, appeared perfectly 

 harmlefs, was fond of being carefied, and always licked the hand by which 

 it was either ftroked or fed. Its fenfe of fmelling appeared to be exquifite, 

 as it always applied to it for information, when any new object prefented 

 itfelf, particularly when either food or drink was offered to it. The males, 

 however, are very vicious during the rutting feafon, and will then attack 

 and fight each other with the greater! ferocity. Their manner of fighting is 

 lingular ; they begin the attack at fome diftance from each other, by dropping 

 on their knees, in which pofture they muffle on, till they have approached 

 within a few yards, when, fuddenly making a fpring, they dart againft each 

 other with confiderable force. Nor are their attacks during that period 

 confined to thofe of their own fpecies ; for a labouring man happening to go 

 up to the outfide of an inclofure which contained one of thefe animals, 

 without knowing he was near it, as foon as he approached it, the creature 

 darted violently againil the wood work, which he fhattered in pieces, and 

 broke off one of his own horns clofe to the root, which probably colt him 

 his life, as he did not long furvive the event (a). 



(a) Bernier. 



