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of 1880, and that in those days there were plenty of Antelope 

 about. But the last he saw was killed by his father in 1881. 



In 1882, when I traversed that whole region, I neither saw 

 nor heard of any Antelope, nor can I learn that they have ever 

 been seen since. 

 HOME My own experience with this animal has been chiefly on 



cALiTY the Plains of the Canadian River and in western Wyoming. I 

 was there much struck by the smallness of the home locality 

 that seemed to satisfy each band. A level stretch of open 

 prairie two miles across seemed ample range for a herd of 

 twenty throughout a whole season. If there was water on 

 it they seemed satisfied to stay indefinitely. All the records 

 I can find are of similar import. Thus: 



Dr. E. L. Munson, U.S. Army, says:^® "For some weeks a 

 band of several hundred were in a large pasture 4 miles square, 

 several miles from Havre, Montana." 



Dr. C. A. Canfield (of California) says:^^ "Any particular 

 band of Antelope does not leave the locality where they grow 

 up, and never range more than a few miles in difi^erent direc- 

 tions." 



W. N. Byers, of Denver, Col., tells me that for several 

 years in Middle Park, Col., he used to see one particularly 

 large buck Antelope near the road within a mile of the same 

 place. He supposed it was there on account of a salt-lick near. 



It is a common remark that the Antelope when hunted 

 runs in a circle. A little reflection will show that this is true 

 of all animals, and that the circle is always around the region 

 that the creature knows, namely, its own home locality; in this 

 case but 3 or 4 miles across. 



During summer the bands are scattered, but the range of 

 the individual is even smaller. I have seen an old Antelope 

 that made her summer home on the flat top of a butte that was 

 less than 200 acres in extent. The males seem to be less local 

 at this time than the females, and, like bull Moose, commonly 

 wander in twos. 



^ Forest and Stream, February, 1897, P- ^^4- 



" Caton, Antelope and Deer of America, 1877, p. 43. 



