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NA T I TR A L HIS TOR Y. 



The prong-horn is larger than a sheep, yellowish brown above, and white 

 below. It lives in the mountainous country, and depends almost solely on 

 its sense of sight — not upon that of smell — for warning of danger. And 

 when alarmed, what time it will make ! there is no American form which 

 can equal it in a race. The bucks are the most watchful and most suspicious, 

 and their warning note quickly alarms the whole herd. Their suspicious- 



Fig. 507. — Prong-horn, or cabree (Antilocapra americana). 



ness is. however, moderated by an undue amount of curiosity. Any strange 

 object attracts their attention; a fluttering rag, the heels of a hunter lying 

 "n his back, or any other unfamiliar sight will draw them within gunshot. 

 Dr. Williston relates an amusing instance of this curiosity. "Starting a 

 small heid one evening, and not knowing how useless the attempt would be 

 to follow them. 1 set nut in pursuit. On seeing them go over the brow of a 

 neighboring hill. 1 crept cautiously for several hundred yards, till I reached 



