THE HARNESSED ANTELOPE. 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns annulated or twilled. 



Eight broad cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the upper. 

 Body and limbs of a light and elegant form. 



Synonims. 



Antelope Scrifta, Pallas Mifcell. Zool. 8. Spirit, 15. 

 Harnessed Antelope, Pennant Syn. Quad, 27. 

 Le Guib, de Buffon, xii. 327. tab, xl. 

 Bonti-bok, Sparrmans Voy, 



THE Antelope feems to form the connecting link, in the great chain of 

 nature, between the Goat and the Deer: like the former, their horns are 

 hollow, and they never Ihed them ; while, on the other hand, they refemble 

 the Deer in the elegance of their form and their extraordinary Ipeed, in 

 which they far furpafs any other quadruped. They foon diftance the 

 Greyhound; and the Hunting Leopard, which is trained to catch them in 

 India, cannot approach them, except by crawling, imperceptibly, through 

 the thick grafs, on its belly, till it has attained the proper diftance, from which 

 it Iprings on its pray with unerring aim, and foon fubdues it. The feveral 

 Ipecies of them differ greatly from each other in their general form, as well 

 as in the Itru&ure of their horns ; thole which inhabit the continent of 

 Africa are, in general, more elegant in their form, and their horns are 

 annulated; whereas thole found in Africa, and, particularly, in the country 

 about the Cape of Good Hope, fo much refemble the Goat, that they are 

 called, by the inhabitants, the Wood Goat, the Blue Goat, the Striped Goat, 



