VI. 



The Common Prongbuck, Antelope or Pronghorned 

 Antelope of America, Cabrit or Cabrie. 



Anttlocapra americana (Ord). 



(Antilocapra, name compounded by Ord, in 1818, out of L. antilope, an antelope, and 

 capra, a goat; americana, of America.) 



Antelope americana Ord, 1 81 5, Guthrie's Geogr. 2nd Am. 



ed., II, p. 292 (descr. on p. 308). 

 Antilocapra americana^ Ord, 1818, Journ. de Phys., LXXXVII, 



p. 149. 

 Type Locality. — On the Plains and the highlands of the 



Missouri. 



French Canadian, le Cabrit. 



Cree, Ah-pi-chee-ah-tik' (small caribou). 



Yankton Sioux, Tah-chah-chus-cheen'-ah (small 



deer). 

 Ogallala Sioux, Tah-heen-cha-san'-la. 



The word Cabrit or Cabrie used by the half-breeds of 

 the North-west may be, as Richardson suggests,^ a Basque cor- 

 ruption of the Spanish cabra, a goat. The fact that the 

 English fur-traders and the earliest Spanish explorers call it 

 "Goat" helps this idea. ButDr. Coues thinks' Cabra,Cabbrie, 

 Caberey, etc., may be a native word adapted. 



The names Le Squenoton and Squinaton, recorded by 

 Dobbs and his anonymous predecessor,^ probably do not 

 belong to this species. 



' F. B. A., 1829, 1, p. 262. 



*"It occurs in early annals of the N. W. under circumstances which lead me to 

 believe it an entirely different word [from Latin Capra] of Indian origin." — Henry's 

 Joum., 1897, P- 191- E. C. 



^ Quoted by Richardson, F. B. A., 1829, I, p. 262. 



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