SPRINGBOK, Antilope euchore, or Antidoreas euchore, a species of antelope, nearly allied to the gazelles, very abundant in south Africa. It is an extremely beautiful creature, of graceful form and fine colors. It is larger than the roebuck, and its neck and limbs much longer and more delicate. The general color is fulvous brown on the upper parts, pure white beneath, the colors separated on the flanks by a broad baud of deep vinous red. The whole head is white, except a broad brown band on each side from the eye to the mouth, and a brown spot in the center of the face. Two curious folds of skin ascend from the root of the tail, and terminate near the middle of the back: they are usually closed, but open out when the animal is bounding, and disclose a large triangular white space which is otherwise concealed. The springbok derives its name from the prodigious leaps which it takes either when alarmed or in play. often to the height of 7 ft., and sometimes of 12 or 13 ft. Its ordinary residence is in the karroom or arid sandy plains; but when all p isture there is burned up, immense herds congregate together, and migrate to more fertile regions, often devastating the fields of the colo nist. Mr. Pringle speaks of seeing the country near the Little Fish river specked with
them as far as the eye could reach, and estimates the number in sight at once as not less than 25,000 or 30,000. Capt. Cumming describes a still more extraordinary scene, a vast herd pouring through an opening among hills. in one living mass, half a mile in breadth, and so continuing for hours together. So dense are these herds sometimes in thc.r migrations that the lion or the leopard, which ordinarily hangs on their skirts with a view to prey, is taken prisoner, and compelled to march along in the midst. The strongest animals are geuerally foremost, but when satiated with food they fall behind, and others, hungry arid active, take their place. When taken young, the springbok is easily tamed, and becomes very familiar, troublesome, and tricky.