2^0 FAUNA AMERICANA. 



Species. 



1. Antilope americana. 



Antilocapra americana, Ord, Journ. de Phys. 

 1818. Cervus bifurcatus, Rafinesque. jlntilope 

 bifurcata, Smith. Jlntilope furcifer, ejusd. Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. pi. 2. Cerf a bois recotirbe, 

 Cervus hatnatus, Blainv. Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 1816, p. 80. Schreb. Goldfuss. tab. 264. Desm. 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. t. 29. p. 542. Jntilope 

 furcifer, Desm. Mamm. Prong-horned Jlntelope. 



Note. — It is somewhat remarkable that so many 

 synonymes should have occurred for an animal so 

 lately discovered as the subject of the present de- 

 scription. The Prong-horned Antelope, is now 

 generally admitted to be a true Antelope, and not 

 the type of a distinct subgenus; we know not 

 on what authority Mr. Smith has changed the spe- 

 cific name, {Americana,) under which Mr. Ord 

 first described this species. 



Char. Essent. Horns rugous, triangular at base, 

 and provided with a very small antler, compress- 

 ed and turned outwards, terminated superiorly in 

 a recurved point, hooked backwards and rather 

 outwards ; colour reddish-fawn above^ wliite be- 

 neath ; hair rather short, stiff and coarse ; a red- 

 dish mane upon the neck. 



Dimensions. Length of the body, measured 

 from the anterior part of the shoulders to the 



