230 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Genus ANTILOCAPRA. 



Antilocapra, Ord, Journ. PTiys. vol. Ixxxvii, p. 149, 1818; Elliot 

 Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. ii) p. 43, 

 1901; Matthew, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xx, p. 102, 

 1904, vol. xxiv, p. 561, 1908 ; Lyon, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. 

 xxiv, p. 397, 1908 ; PococJc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 935 ; Miller, 

 List N. Amer. Mamm. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 79), p. 393, 

 1912. 



Dicranocerus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 169, 

 vol. v, p. 322,* 1827. 



Horns (absent or rudimentary in females) forked on the 

 front edge at about one-third their height, upright, compressed 

 at base, terminally conical and recurved, smooth and devoid 

 of rings of growth throughout their length ; muffle hairy, 

 with the exception of a narrow line between nostrils; no 

 face-glands or inguinal glands, but a median dorsal gland on 

 loins, and glands in both pairs of hoofs ; hair stiff, coarse, 

 and bristly, usually elongated on nape of neck into a short 

 mane, and erectile and eversible on rump ; tail very short ; 

 lateral hoofs wanting. 



Distribution that of the single species. 



ANTILOCAPKA AMEKICAKA. 



Antilope americana, Ord, Guthrie's Geography, 2nd Amer. ed. pp. 292 

 and 308, 1815. 



Cervus hamatus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 73. 



Antilocapra americana, Ord, Journ. Phys. vol. Ixxxvii, p. 149, 1818, 

 vol. Ixxxviii, p. 314, 1819, OJcen's Isis, 1819, p. 1105 ; Gray, List 

 Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 58, 1843, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, 

 vol. xviii, p. 232, 1846, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 137, Knowsley 

 Menagerie, p. 19, 1850, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 117, 1852, 

 Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 63, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 135, 1873 ; Audubon and Bachman, Quadr. N. 

 America, vol. ii, p. 189, 1851 ; Baird, Mamm. N. America, 

 p. 666, 1857, Rep. U.S. Mexican Bound. Survey, vol. ii, p. 51, 

 1858 ; Cassin, U.S. Explor. Exped., Mamm. p. 63, 1858 ; Wein- 

 land, Zool. Garten, vol. iv, p. 225, 1863; Martin, ibid. vol. v, 

 p. 251, 1864; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 60, pi. iii; 

 Bartlett, ibid. 1865, p. 718 ; Canfield, ibid. 1866, p. 105 ; Coues, 

 Amer. Nat. vol. i, p. 539, 1868 ; Hays, ibid. vol. ii, p. 131, 1869 ; 

 Cooper, ibid. vol. ii, p. 537, 1869 ; Hinman, ibid. vol. ii, p. 654, 

 1869; Murie, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 334; Caton, Antelope 



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