CHAPTER XIV. . 

 THE PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE. 



(Antitocapra Americana.} 



THIS is the only species of the genus, and is about 

 'the size of Cervus Virginianm, graceful and elegant in 

 form and action, and probably as swift as any known 

 quadruped. Well may the Americans be proud of pos- 

 sessing the only representative of the race, and truly 

 with good reason. When the antelope is seen on the 

 boundless prairies of the Far West, untrammelled by 

 limit, free to go and return as they choose, the impres- 

 sions caused will never be effaced, or a better represen- 

 tation of perfect independence and freedom beheld. It 

 is with sorrow I state that the limits of this beautiful 

 creature are day by day becoming more and more con- 

 tracted, and predict that, with the bison (Bos Americanus) 

 and the Indian, it will ere long cease to exist, save in 

 the memory of those who knew these princely hunting- 

 grounds before the intruding, grasping white race 



