86 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



ders at their purfuers, and at the fame time {hewing the 

 white part of their backs in a mod beautiful manner. 



The Springers are fo extremely fwift, as to require a 

 good Horfe to overtake them ; although they are fome- 

 times bold enough to allow a fportfman, either on foot 

 or on horfeback, to come within gun-ftiot of them. — 

 Their flefh is very palatable, and has a more juicy and 

 delicate tafte than that of the other Gazelles. 



The ELK-ANTELOPE 



is likewife an inhabitant of the Cape, as well as the 

 greateft part of India ; and is one of the larger kinds of 

 Gazelles. It has ftraight horns, two feet in length, of a 

 dark-brown colour, marked with two prominent fpiral 

 ribs running near two-thirds of their length, but fmooth 

 towards the ends, which are turned a little inwards : The 



