WHITE-FOOTED ANTELOPE. 
which they commonly possess, and \vhich are 
obvious to every beholder. 
They resemble the goat, and differ from the 
deer, in never shedding their horns ; in having 
a gall bladder ; and in delighting more to 
browze on shrubs than crop grass : yet they are 
like the roe-buck in size, as well as in delicacy 
of conformation ; have deep pits under their 
eyes, like that animal ; and resemble it in the 
nature and colour of their hair, as well as the 
bunches on their leg?, which only vary by 
being on the fore-legs of the Antelope, and on 
the hind-legs of the roe-buck. Thus they ap- 
pear to be of a middle nature ; an intermediate 
link between the goat and the deer : whence it 
is difncult to pronounce, with any precision, 
where the goat ends, cr the deer commences. 
Antelopes mostly inhabit the torrid regions; 
those parts, at least, of the temperate zone, 
which are situated so near the tropics as to 
form a doubtful climate. It is remarkable, 
however, that in no part of the new world, 
not even in South America, the warmth ot 
which must necessarily be well suited to their 
nature. 
