of America allied to the Ge?ius Antilopi . 31 



animals, the party selected for the sport a hill the ascent of which 

 was gradual, but the opposite side precipitous : at the bottom of 

 the slope they formed a chain of hunters, and crawled gradually 

 and simultaneously towards the summit, inducing the gaitie to 

 approach the precipice. When arrived at a convenient height, 

 they all suddenly rose and gave a loud yell, which terrified the 

 timid creatures so completely, that most of them sprang over the 

 brink and were dashed to death in their fall. Upwards of sixty 

 cabrits and big-horned sheep were thus slain in a single beat * 



AxTILOPE PALM ATA. 



Mctzame ? Hernandes. 



Tab. III. 



I have adopted the trivial appellation of Palmated .Antelope 

 merely to distinguish an animal the horns of which are preserved 

 in the museum of Surgeons'-college, Lincoln's-Inn Fields. I 

 am indebted to Sir Joseph Banks for the knowledge of the exig- 

 ence of this highly interesting specimen, and to the liberality of 

 the Curators of that splendid establishment for permission to 

 make a drawing, of which the annexed is a copy. All I could 

 learn of their history is, that they were presented to Mr. Hunter 

 without a memorandum ; consequently without giving any idea 

 of the animal, or of the country from which they were brought. 

 By some persons they were considered as a monstrous produc- 

 tion : in their appearance, however, they bear so great a resem- 

 blance to the horns of the animal before described, that they 

 are either of a species immediately allied to it, or possibly only 

 a variety. 



Part of their base is wanting ; what remains is about eleven 

 inches and a half long, measured upon the curve. At their pre- 



* There is an imperfect copy of this journal printed at the end of A Topographical 

 Description of the State of Ohio, 8vo. Boston, 1812. — I have seen a manuscript. 



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