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simple and permanent, instead of branched and deciduous, there is no alternative but to 

 expunge the name from the systems, or to keep it until we find an animal with horns like the 

 giraffe, only much longer, and not covered by a skin. 



In reality, Rafinesque seems never to have seen, certainly never to have examined critically, 

 the animals he refers to. 



ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA, Ord. 



Prong Horn Antelope : Cabree. 



Antilope americana, ORD. Guthrie's Geog. (2d Amer. edition) II, 1815, 292, 308. 

 HARLAN, F. Am. 1825, 250. 

 GODMA, Am. N. H. II, 320. 

 DOUGHTY, Cab. N. H. II, 1833, 49 ; pi. v, (figure taken from Lewis and Clark's specimen, in 



Peale's museum.) 



MAXIMILIAN, Reise in das innere Nord-Amerika, I, 1839, 403. 

 Antilocapra americana, OF.D. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1818, 146. IB. Journal.de Physique, LXXXVII, 1818, 149. 



J. E. GRAY, Knowsley Menagerie, 1850, 19. IB. Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond, XVIII, 1850, 137. 

 AUD. & BACH. N. Am. Quad. II, 1851, 193 ; pi. Ixxvii. 



BAIRD, Rep. U. S. Pat. Off. Agricultural for 1851 (1852) ; plate, (from Richardson.) 

 Dicranoceros americanus, TURNER, Pr. Zool. Soc. xviii, 1850, 174. 

 " Cervta hamatus, BLAINVILLE, Bull. Soc. Philomat. 1816, 73." 

 Antilope furcifer, HAM. SMITH, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. XIII, 1822, 28; pi. ii. IB. Griff. Cuv. IV, 1827, 170; 



plate. 



DESMAREST, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 

 RICH. F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 261 ; pi. xxi. 

 WAGNER, Schreber's Saugt. V, 1836 ; plate cclxxix, A. 

 GIEBKL, Zoologie ; Saugt. 1855, 305. 

 Antilocapra furcifer, DESMAREST, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 

 Antilope (Dicranoceros) furcifer, HAM. SMITH, Griffith's Cuv. V, 1827, 323. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Schreb. IV, 1844, 403 IB. V, 1855, 461. 

 Mazama furcifer, OGILBY, Pr. Zool. Soc. IV, 1836, 137. 

 . Dicranoceros furcifer, SUNDEVALL, Kong. Sv. Vetensk. Handl. for 1844. IB. Hornschuch, Archiv Skand. Beit. II, 



1850, 268. 



Antilope palmata, SMITH, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, 1822,31 ; plate III, (horn.) IB. Griffith' sCuvier, IV, 1827, 323. 

 DESMAREST, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 



OGILBY, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. IV, 1836, 121. IB. Lond. & Ed. Phil. Mag. XI, 1837, 126. 

 WAGNER, in Schreber's Saugt. V, i, 1836, 1250 ; pi. ccxliv, D, (horns.) 

 Antilocapra palmata, DESMAREST, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 

 Antilope (Dicranoceros} palmata, HAM. SMITH, Griff. Cuv. V, 1827, 323. 

 ?? Ixalus probaton,* OGILBY, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1836, 119, (Artie America ?) 

 ? Antilope anteflexa, GRAY, Pr. Zool. Soc 

 Teuthlalma$ame, HERNANDEZ. (According to Berlandier.) 

 Berendo, of the modern Mexicans. (Berlandier.) 



SP. CH. Color above yellowish brown, or pale dun color ; a narrow transverse band between the eyes, the top and sides of 

 the muzzle, and a patch beneath the ear, (wanting in the female,) liver brown ; edges of upper lip, chin and sides of face, 

 spot behind the ear, a narrow crescent on the upper part of the throat, a triangular patch below this, the entire under 

 parts and a square patch on the rump, white. Horns, hoofs, and naked parts of the nose, black. 



Horns rudimentary or wanting in the female. 



^ Sundevall refers to this as the Ovis ixalon of Blythe, from Chile. 



