ADDENDUM. 



IN speaking of the trust antelope place in their eye- 

 sight as a guard against danger, I do not mean to imply 

 that their noses are not also very acute ; it is as import- 

 ant with them as with all other game to prevent their 

 getting the hunter's wind. So with deer ; while their 

 eyes are not as sharp as those of big-horn and prong-horn, 

 they are yet quite keen enough to make it necessary 

 for the still hunter to take every precaution to avoid 

 being seen. 



Although with us antelope display the most rooted 

 objection to entering broken or wooded ground, yet a 

 friend of mine, whose experience in the hunting-field is 

 many times as great as my own, tells me that in certain 

 parts of the country they seem by preference to go 

 among the steepest and roughest places (of course, in so 

 doing, being obliged to make vertical as well as hori- 

 zontal leaps), and even penetrate into thick woods. 

 Indeed, no other species seems to show such peculiar 

 " freakiness " of character, both individually and locally. 



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