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slow-flowing streams and lily -flecked lakes are favorite resorts. 

 No animal furnishes more real sport than the deer. The weary 

 days spent in tramping through fairly impassable swamps are 

 forgotten in the excitement of the moment when the lordly ani- 

 mal dashes by with gleaming eyes, and gives you a few seconds 

 opportunity for his capture. The prevailing method for stalk 

 ing the deer in the open woodlands of Minnesota is for several 

 to unite, some stationing themselves in the known runways while 

 others beat the denser copses, in hope of starting the animal. 

 The fortunate hunter, into whose beat the deer strikes, has no 

 intimation of its approach except the crash which precedes his 

 appearance. If nerves do not fail, the rifle is prepared, and a 

 ball is sent crashing into the shoulder as the animal springs 

 into the air, to fall in a heap almost at the feet of his slayer. 

 Coursing deer on horseback has never been tried as our state 

 furnishes no opportunity. Jack hunting, if less sportsman-like, 

 is fully as exciting and less fatiguing than any other method. 

 An experience of this sort on the St. Louis river convinced the 

 writer that nerves, usually rather steady, can be stirred by the 

 sudden apparition of luminous orbs, backed by, no one knew 

 what. As much depends on the one who uses the paddle as 

 the actual Nimrod. 



A few initiated have succeeded in securing a deer or two near 

 the city of Minneapolis every winter up to very recently, but 

 now this sport must be sought far northward. 

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Antilocapra americana ORD. 



AMERICAN ANTELOPE; PRONG-HORN ANTELOPE. 



Plate I. 

 Antilocapra americana ORDWAY, Jour, de Phys., 80. 1818. 



J. E. GRAY, Knowsley Menagerie, 1850. 



AUDUBON and BACHMAN, N. Amer. Quadrupeds, ii, p. 

 193, 1851. 



BAIRD, Pacif. R. R. Rep., viii, p. 666, 1857. 



HARLAN, Fauna Am., p. 250, 1825. 



CATON, Antelope and Deer N. A., 1877. 



C. YOGT, Sauget., p. 310, 1883. 

 AntilopeamericaneOnvwAY, Guth. Geog., 1815. 



HARLAN, Fauna Am., p. 250, 1825. 



DOUGHTY, Cab. Nat. Hist., p. 49, 1833. 



MAXIMILIAN, Reise in Nord-Am., 1839. 

 Antilope furcifer SMITH, Linn. Trans., xiii, p. 28, 1822. 



DESMAREST, Mamm., ii, p. 479, 1822. 



RICHARDSON, Fanna Bor.-Am. ii, 1829. 



GIEBEL, Zoologie, Sauget., p. 305, 1855. 



