WHITE-FOOT£D ANTELOPE. 
They are said to be, occasionally, very vi- 
cious and fierce. When the males fight, they 
drop on their knees at a distance from each 
other ; and, in this attitude, make their ap- 
proaches, till they come within the compass of 
a single spring, when thev suddenly dart for- 
ward at each other. In a state of confine- 
ment, they often fall into that posture, with- 
out any serious intention of mischief. They 
have, however, been known to attack man- 
kind unprovoked. Of this Pennant gives an 
instance : a labourer, he says, looking over 
some pales which inclosed a few of these An- 
telopes, was alarmed by one of the males fly- 
ing at him like lightning ; but he was saved 
by the intervention of the wood-work, which 
the animal broke to pieces, and at the same 
time one of his horns. 
The female is supposed to go nine months 
with young, and has sometimes two at a 
birth. The young, whether male or female, 
are of a fav, n-colour. 
