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THE SPRINGER OR SPRINGBOCK. 
Antilope euchorc. 
PLATE XXVII. 
Antilope euchorc of Springbock of the Dutch 
Colonists. 
“ This is one of the most beautiful of the Antelopes 
of Southern Afi-ica, and is certainly one of the most 
numerous. The plain afforded no other object to fix 
the attention, and even if it had presented many, I 
should not readily have ceased admiring these elegant 
animals, or have been diverted from watching their 
manners. It was only occasionally that they took 
those remarkable leaps which have been the origin of 
their name ; but when moving or grazing at leisure, 
they walked or trotted like other Antelopes, or as the 
common deer. When pursued or hastening their 
pace, they frequently took an extraordinary bound, 
rising with curved or elevated backs, generally to the 
height of eight feet, and appearing as if about to take 
flight. Some of the herds moved by us almost with- 
in musket-shot; and I observed that, in crossing the 
beaten road, the greater number cleared it by one of 
those flying leaps.” Two thousand of this beautiful 
creature were conjectured to form the above mentioned 
