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side-patches. Occasionally specimens are seen with a distor- 

 tion of the usual pattern on the throat, as though the stencil 

 had been jarred when the work was half done. 



The young are at first grayish brown, darkening on the 

 face, paling on the rump, and with faint suggestions of the 

 adult colours and pattern, but are never spotted as in the Deer 

 Family. They assume the adult colours toward the end of 

 summer. 

 RACES Merriam has recently described' the Mexican Antelope as 



a new sub-species, mexicana, but this name is possibly ante- 

 dated by Hamilton Smith's palmata; ^ this is a pale race. 



Dis- In that eventful anno domini IS^'C, when Jacques Cartier 



CO VERY w'v^w'^ ^ ^ J 



ascended the St. Lawrence to be the white discoverer of Hoche- 

 laga (Montreal), Francisco Vasquez de Coronado also landed 

 in Mexico and became a pioneer and an empire-builder of 

 world-wide fame. Five years later he set forth on his memo- 

 rable march northward as far, we now believe, as Kansas, dis- 

 covering and possessing in the name of the Cross and the 

 King. Without doubt he was the first white man to see the 

 Antelope. Charles F. Lummis writes me that: 



"Coronado's expedition unquestionably saw Antelope; 

 but there is no name and no definite description of them in his 

 record. The nearest he comes to it is on the Buffalo plains, 

 where Castaneda speaks of 'siervos, remendados de bianco' 

 (the stags patched with white). Herrera mentions them under 

 their proper name of Berrendos (Decade, II, p. 288, 1601). 

 I do not recall any mention of them in Gomara." 



G. H. Gould calls my attention to the fact that near Zuni, 

 Coronado saw what he calls goats. Undoubtedly they were 

 Antelope. 



In 1 651 Hernandez described^ this animal. He calls it 

 Teuthlalma^ame or Temama(;ame; evidently these were the 

 native Aztec names, and in the same paragraph he uses the 



'' Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., April 5, 1901, p. 31. 

 * Griflf. Cuvier, 1827, V, p. 323. 

 'Nov. Hist., 165 1, pp. 324-5. 



