PLATE III. 
GAZELLA EUCHORE.—THE SPRINGBOK. 
Springbok of the Cape Colonists. Tsepe of the Kafirs and Bechuana. 
Generic CHARACTER.—Adult male about two feet eight inches high at the shoulder, and two or three inches more at the croup. 
Extreme length about four feet ten inches. Form characterized by elegance and elasticity. Head small and light; face white; both 
resembling a lamb’s in shape and expression. Horns black, lyrate, robust; twelve or fifteen inches in length, with about twenty com- 
plete rings ; the tips turned inwards, and generally inclined either forward or backward. A chesnut streak passing from the back of 
the horns, through the eye, to the nose. | General colour of the hair, cinnamon or lively dun above; beneath pure white; the two sepa- 
rated by a broad rich chesnut band passing abruptly along each flank to the shoulder. On the croup are two longitudinal foldings or 
duplications of the skin, which commence about the middle of the back, and pass over the loins to the tail, bordered by a band of 
chesnut. The interior of these folds are lined with long silky hair ten or twelve inches in length, of the most dazzling and snowy 
whiteness, which may be concealed or displayed at pleasure. When the animal is quiescent, a white dorsal stripe only is perceptible, 
margined with chesnut ; but when excited or in motion, the folds are suddenly expanded, so as to form a broad disk spreading over the 
whole croup, and producing a most singular effect. Legs slender and wiry; white inside only. Nose truly ovine. Lachrymary sinus 
not remarkably distinct. Ears long, attenuated, and of a dirty white colour. Eyes very full, dark, and lustrous, with long dewy lashes. 
Tail eight inches long, resembling a large white goose quill, bare inside, and terminated by an eccentric tuft of long wavy black hair, 
posteriorly directed. 
Doe similar, but smaller, and of more feminine proportions ; with very slender horns, either straight or capriciously bent, 
exhibiting a few indistinct annuli at their base. Has an udder with two mamme. Still abundant in the colony, and distributed over 
the arid plains beyond it, in unlimited herds. 
