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now extinct. He says: "J. T. Brondgeest, of Whitewater, 

 Man., tells me that he first came to Whitewater in 1879, 

 and settled down in the fall of 1880, and that in those days 

 there were plenty of antelope about, but the last he saw was 

 killed by his father m 1881." 



To-day the antelope in Canada are confined to those 

 areas in the southern portion of Saskatchewan and Alberta 

 that have not been devoted to wheat-growing. From the 

 inquiries that I have made, I do not think that there are more 

 than about 3,000 animals now remaining in those provinces, 

 and of this number the greater portion exists in Saskatche- 

 wan. In the latter province Mr. F. Bradshaw, the chief 

 game guardian, informs me that the existing antelope are 

 to be found mainly in the following districts: the Great 

 Sand Hills north of Maple Creek and Crane Lake; the Ver- 

 milion Hills between Ernfold, on the main line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, and the South Saskatchewan 

 River; on the east of Lake Chaplin, south of Secretan on 

 the main line of the C. P. R.; southeast of Cypress Hills and 

 adjoining the Whitemud River; and northwest and south 

 of Wood Mountain. The last three localities are in a region 

 that is chiefly devoted to cattle-ranching, and it is encour- 

 aging to know that, according to Mr. Bradshaw, the own- 

 ers of the cattle ranges in which the antelope are to be 

 found, particularly in the Pinto Creek section of southern 

 Saskatchewan, are doing what they can to protect the an- 

 telope found on their ranges, where they mingle with the 

 cattle. It is of interest to record that Mr. Reuben Lloyd, 

 of Davidson, Sask., has in a small fifteen-acre private game 

 reserve, three male and one female antelope, and in 1916 

 the latter gave birth to the two fawns which are shown on 

 Plate XIII. 



In southern Alberta a few small herds may be found in 

 the rolling hills, and the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains 

 that are remote from settled areas. In both provinces the 



