KLIPSPRINGER. 
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less : length three feet nine inches to the tail. In- 
habits the country very remote from the Cape ot 
Good Hope. Seldomu more than two are seen to- 
gether ; they generallly haunt the neighbourhood 
of fountains surrounded with reeds. Are excel- 
lent venison.' 3 
Shaw is not without some suspicion that this 
may be only a variety of the ritbock. 
Klipspringer. 
This species is to be numbered among the late 
acquisitions in natural history ; having been first 
described by Dr. Forster. 
It is a native of Africa, and is known to the 
Dutch residents at the Cape of Good Hope by 
the name of klipspringer. It inhabits the high- 
est and most inaccessible parts of the rocky moun- 
tains beyond the Cape ; leaping with surprising 
agility from erag to crag, over the most tremen- 
dous abysses. 
Its size is that of a roebuck, and its colour 
pale yellowish tawny, accompanied with a very 
slight greenish tinge ; the horns are quite straight, 
slender, upright, and sharp-pointed : they are 
slightly wrinkled at the base, and are about five 
inches in length. The female is said to be desti- 
tute of horns, and has the head marked by some 
black or dusky streaks ; the tail is extremely short, 
so as to be scarce visible. The flesh of the klip- 
springer is much esteemed as an article of food. 
The Count de Buffon, in his sixth supplemental 
volume, seems to consider this species as a variety 
of the nagor or red antelope. 
