39^9, HARNESSED ANTELOPE. 



It is a native of Africa, and is known to the 

 Dutch residents at the Cape of Good Hope by 

 the name of KHpspringer. It inhabits the high- 

 est and most inaccessible parts of the rocky moun- 

 tains beyond the Cape ; leaping with surprising 

 agility, from crag to crag, over the most tremen- 

 dous abysses. Its size is that of a Roebuck, and 

 its colour pale yellowish tawny, accompanied with 

 a very slight greenish tinge : the horns are quite 

 strait, slender, upright, and sharp-pointed : they 

 are slightly wrinkled at the base, and are about five 

 inches in length. The female is said to be desti- 

 tute of horns, and has the head marked by some 

 black or dusky streaks : the tail is extremely short, 

 so as to be scarce visible. The flesh of the Klip- 

 springer is much esteemed as an article of food.' 

 The Count de Buffon, in his sixth supplementa 

 volume, seems to consider this species as a variet 

 of the Nagor or Red Antelope. 



HARNESSED ANTELOPE. 



Antilope Scripta. A. cornibus subulatis rectis contortis, corpori 



strigis. albis decussatis. Lin. Syst, Nat. Gmel. p. 191. 

 Chesnut-coloured Antelope^ with white crossed stripes on the 



sides, and strait tapering wreathed horns. 

 Le Guib. Buff. 12. p. 30^. 327. y. 40, 41./. i. 

 Harnessed Antelope. Fennant Quadr. i.p. 81. 



This, which is numbered among the smaller 

 Antelopes, is of an elegant tawny chesnut-colour 

 both above and below; each side of the body 



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