36 Mr. C. H. Smith's Observations on some Animals 



but as I am not positive as to the sex or age of mine, his judge- 

 ment may be more correct. 



Antilope Temamazama. 



Cervus Macatl chichiltic seu Temamazame ? Seba. 



Capra Pudu. Molina ? 



Ovis Pudu. Linn. Syst. Gmel. 



Spring-back of New Jersey ? 



I now come to a fourth species of American Antelope, the 

 existence of which is more doubtful ; but which, in the opinion 

 of the natives of the United States, formerly abounded and is 

 still occasionally found in the state of New Jersey, where it is 

 known by the name of the Spring-back. This denomination is 

 a corruption from the Dutch spring-bock ; and these people 

 being the first settlers in that colony makes the term bock (male 

 of the goat) the more remarkable, because their forests abounded 

 with the American roebuck and Virginian deer : they must 

 therefore have been acquainted with the appearance of cervine 

 horns in all their varieties of age and species ; consequently the 

 animal so named must have borne a character which justified in 

 some measure the term applied. This character, it is asserted, is 

 that of the antelope, though it is possible that it refers in reality 

 to a species of deer whose horns are alwa} r s single shoots. In 

 the Museum of Philadelphia there is a part of a skull with the 

 horns attached to it brought out of the Jerseys, and said to be 

 those of the spring-back : they are however decidedly cervine, 

 and the production of a young deer, or of an undescribed species. 

 But the misapplication of a name does not destroy the probabi- 

 lity of the existence of an analogous animal to the antelope, if not 

 any longer in New Jersey, at least in the hills and sandy plains 

 along the frontier of New Mexico and the province of Santa Fe. 



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