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SPORT AND TRAVEL 



83 Ibs. clean within i Ib. of 6 stones. The scien- 

 tific name which has been given to the prong-horned 

 antelope Antilocapra americana, American goat an- 

 telope appears to me, now that I have seen these 

 animals in their native haunts, to be a singularly 



PRONG-HORN BUCK JUST BROUGHT TO CAMP, SEPTEMBER, 1897 



inappropriate one ; for in habits and appearance, 

 the form of its finely cut legs and longish sharp- 

 pointed hoofs, the nature of the country it frequents, 

 and indeed in every other particular, with one curious 

 exception, the animal is a true antelope, and is as 

 far removed from any species of wild goat as it is 

 from a sheep. The one point in which it differs from 



