American Big Game in its Haunts 



such is indeed the case, while furthermore, in the 

 small size of the suborbital gland and pit, and in 

 comparative smoothness of the horns, both species 

 approach the bharal of Thibet and India, which in 

 these respects is goat-like. 



When one considers the poverty of the new 

 world in bovine ruminants, it seems strange that 

 three such anomalous forms should have fallen to 

 its share as the prong-horn, the white goat and the 

 musk-ox, of none of which have we the complete 

 history; two of the number being entirely isolated 

 species, sometimes regarded as the types of 

 separate families. 



The prong-horn is a curious compound. It re- 

 sembles sheep in the minute structure of its hair, 

 in its hairy muzzle, and in having interdigital 

 glands on all its feet. Like goats, it has no sub- 

 orbital gland nor distinct pit. Like the chamois, it 

 has a gland below and behind the ear, the secretion 

 of which has a caprine oder. It has also glands on 

 the rump. It is like the giraffe in total absence of 

 the accessory hoofs, even to the metapodials which 

 support them. It differs from all hollow horned 

 ungulates in having deciduous horns with a fork or 

 anterior branch. There is not the least similarity, 

 however, between these horns and the bony decidu- 

 ous antlers of deer^ for, like those of all bovines, 



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