The New International Encyclopædia/Steinbock

STEINBOCK (Ger., stone-goat), or STEINBUCK. (1) The European ibex (q.v.). (2) In South Africa, by transference, the Dutch name (also ‘steenbok’) for the small antelopes of the genus Nanotragus, specifically the widespread Nanotragus campestris, which abounds in open or thinly wooded and hilly places from the Cape to the Zambezi River. It is of an indeterminate reddish hue, about 24 inches tall, long-necked, with short, erect, forward-curving ringed horns, and exceedingly swift and active, and skillful in hiding. Other species of the genus are the oribi, grysbok, and royal antelope (qq.v.), with still others in Zanzibar and Abyssinia. Consult Proceedinqs of the Zoölogical Society of London for 1900.