WHITE-FOOTED ANTELOPE. 
The name Antelope, or Gazell, is given 
by naturalists to a species of animals which 
can neither be referred to the deer nor to the 
goat race, though they partake of the nature 
of both. 
In this tribe of animals there are, according 
to some naturalists, more than forty species ; 
but BufFon only enumerates thirteen, and 
seems inclined rather to consider these as va- 
rieties than as absolutely distindt species. The 
distinguishing chara6lers^ of the Gazell or 
Antelope race are, that their horns are diffe- 
rently constru6led from those of the deer and 
goat families, by being annulated or ringed 
round, at the same time that there are longi- 
tudinal depressions running from the base to 
the apex ; that they have bunches of hair on 
their fore-legs ; a black, red, or brown streak, 
running along the inferior parts of their sides ; 
and three streaks of whitish hair on the inter- 
nal sides of their ears. These arc general cha- 
fa(Slcrs ; but there arc, also, several others, 
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