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freqiientl}' noted, ranging upward through tlie whole of the pine 

 zone. In June the mule deer was most frequently seen on the ridges 

 in the pine forest ; hut the antelope came down into grassy openings 

 called " parks,'' or else lived in the most open pine woods. One huck 

 was so gentle, or possessed so much curiosit3% that I killed it with 

 my shotgun. Another was shot near Flagstaif as late in the year as 

 Xovember 4:,_ 1885. Five antelope were passed by near the head- 

 quarters of the Arizona Cattle Company, near Flagstaff, Arizona, 

 June 3, 1887. We afterwards found them abundant on the timbered 

 ravines and slopes of San Francisco Mountain, where again some 

 were killed w^ith the shotgun. Enormous herds were seen in open 

 parks near the base of the San Francisco cone. The highest were 

 seen at the altitude of 2,500 meters (8,250 feet), above Little Spring, 

 at the north base. 



East of the Verde Valley antelope Avere first noted as seen between 

 Clear Creek and Saw Log, October 2, 1884. At Mud Tanks, a few 

 miles farther up the Mogollon Mountain^, they were always to be 

 found from 1884 to 1888. I saw them at many places on the Mogol- 

 lon JNIesa during those years; but the herds Avere smaller than those 

 around the base of San Francisco Mountain. 



In his Snake Dance of the Moquis, Capt. John G. Bourke gives the 

 following : 



We passed |near the Hopi villages in northeast Arizona] close to an antelope 

 " corral " of the Navajoes. These are made of two converging lines of stone and 

 l>rusli. The Navajo warriors, mounting their fleetest ponies, will scour the coun- 

 try for miles, driving before them the luckless game, which after a while reaches 

 the narrowest point of the corral and then falls a victim to the hunters in 

 ambush. The Indians are careful not to kill all, but to allow a few to escape. 

 This forbearance is partly based upon a desire to allow the game to reproduce, 

 and is partly religious in character. 



Many of these antelope fences were seen in eastern Arizona. 



The antelope has given rise to several place names in the South- 

 west, among them xVntelope Tanks, in the Great San Francisco For- 

 est, and Antelope, on Ash Creek, only a few miles from Bumble 

 Bee, Yavapai County, Arizona, Avhere we killed an antelope ISIarch 

 26, 1885, on a march across southern Arizona and New Mexico to 

 Texas and returning. On this expedition antelope were noted as 

 follows: Between Red Rock and Rillito, Arizona, an adult female 

 antelope was brought in by a soldier. Some were seen between 

 Lordsburg and Separ, New Mexico, April 16, 1885, From Separ to 

 Gage, New Mexico, antelope signs were everywhere abundant; and 

 from their numerous tracks they must have been present in large 

 bands. On May 2, 1885, in the foothills near Dragoon Summit, on 



