APPENDIX. 



NOTE I. 



To the naturalist the following more scientifically arranged synonymy of 

 the Haplocerus will afford information concerning the early literature of 

 this interesting animal. My early labours in this direction were subsequently 

 considerably augmented by the pen of the well-known American naturalist- 

 sportsman, Mr. Geo. Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream. Not 

 only has he written more about it than any man I know of, but he is ever 

 ready to place his knowledge at the disposal of fellow sportsmen. The 

 following synonymy was published by Mr. Grinnell in Forest and Stream 

 of Dec. 5, 1889: 



NAMES OF THE WHITE GOAT. 



A glance at the list of names which have been applied by systematists 

 to the white goat-antelope, as given below, will serve to show the uncertainty 

 which existed in the minds of the earlier writers as to the systematic place 

 which this animal should occupy. The reason for this ignorance is not 

 far to seek when we consider the very slight material which was at their 

 disposal. 



Lewis and Clark, who brought home from their expedition a hunter's 

 skin, speak of the animal as a sheep. Ord, who described it from this 

 same meagre material, followed them, and placed it in the genus Ovis, 

 perhaps for no better reason than that the pelage of his specimen was in 

 part woolly. 



M. de Blainville, however, who saw the complete specimen in the 

 museum of the Linnean Society, recognised its true affinities, and in his 

 description assigned it to the genus Antihpe, and to the sub-genus 

 Rupicapra, thus placing it near the chamois. A year or two later 

 Rafinesque characterised very imperfectly the genus Mazama, in which he 

 seems to have intended to group this antelope, the pronghorn, and one or 

 two species of deer which can probably never be identified. He stated 

 that the white antelope and another species in this genus would probably 



