KLIPSPRINGER. 



521 



*^ Antelope with small strait horns, small head, 

 long neck, long pointed ears. Colour above a 

 deep tawny, brightening towards the sides, neck, 

 head, and legs ; lower part of breast, belly, but- 

 tocks, and inside of thighs, white. Tail only 

 three inches long, and black. Hair on the body 

 short ; under the chest long and whitish ; on each 

 knee a tuft of hair : the females are hornless : 

 length three feet nine inches to the tail. Inha- 

 bits the country very remote from the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Seldom more than two are seen to- 

 gether : they generally haunt the neighbourhood 

 of fountains surrounded with reeds. Are excel- 

 lent venison. " 



I am not without some suspicion that this may 

 be only a variety of the Ritbock, described among 

 the Antelopes with curved horns. 



KLIPSPRINGER. 



Antilope Oreotragus. A. cornibus rectissimis subulatis, basi pa'- 

 mm rugosisj capite nifo, corpore ex Jiavo-virescente subtus ess 

 albo cinereo, cauda brevissima. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 189. 



Yellowish-tawny Antelope, whitish beneath, with very strait up- 

 right tapering horns, slightly wrinkled at their base. 



Antilope Oreotragus. Schreb, Quadr. t. 259. 



Le Klippspringer, ou Sauteur des Rochers. Bitf. Suppl. 6. pi, 22. 



Klipspringer Antelope. Pemiant Quadr. i . p. 80. 



This species is to be numbered among the late 

 acquisitions in natural history ; having been first 

 described by Dr. Forster. 



