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the animal runs. The horns are short and altogether 

 of small size and flattened, but not palmated. 



The Pronghorn Antelope [Antilope Furcifur) is 

 another beautiful species of deer found in California. 

 Ifc is found chiefly in the mountain regions, where it is 

 often seen to tantalize the hunter bj its extreme shy- 

 ness and its great agility. 





PRONGHORN ANTELOPE. 



The Argali Ovis Montanoe is found in California, is 

 sometimes called the Rocky Mountain Sheep.* 



By some the goat of the Rocky Mountains has been 

 confounded with this animal ; and it has also been 

 called an antelope, though it is neither the one nor the 

 other, but truly and properly a goat. The characters 

 of this species, or probably variety (for it really seems 

 that, notwithstanding all the diversities of the genus 

 Om, whether in the wild or the cultivated state, there 



