WHITE-FOOTED ANTELOPE. 
Some species of the Antelope are said to 
form herds of two or three thousand, while 
others keep in small troops of five or six only. 
They frequently feed on the tender shoots of 
trees, which gives their flesh an excellent fla- 
vour. Those fattened for slaughter are far 
less delicious. The flesh of some species, in- 
deed, is said to taste of musk; occasioned, 
probably, by the qualities of the plants on 
which they feed. 
They are taken by means of falcons trained 
0 assist the greyhound, which would otherwise 
jiever come up with them ; by a sort of leo- 
Ira'rd, or ounce, carried on horseback by the 
fcnter ; and by sending a tame Antelope into 
lie lierd, with ropes fastened about it's horns 
!) as to entangle others. 
The White-Footed Antelope, of which w*e 
.e now more particularly to speak, measures 
Awards of four feet in height, to the top of the 
; oulders, and nearly the same in length, from 
5 bottom of the neck to the insertion of the 
I. It's horns, which are short, and proje6t 
a little 
