The Antelope-Goat of the Pacific Slope. 89 



ease I recollect very few indeed which entailed harder work 

 than I underwent in the chase of the American chamois, as one 

 might term these hardy inhabitants of the rocky wastes above 

 timber-line in North America. 



A FAMILY GROUP OF HAPLOCERUS IN SIR ED. LODER'S MUSEUM. 



The old rams are of curiously grotesque proportions, a great 

 hump and high withers give them more the appearance of a 

 mountain buffalo with a goat's head and a long white coat, than 

 anything one could liken them to. The females are very much 



