iyo SPORT AND TRAVEL 



" By the latter part of winter, on the adult, the horn 

 has attained about this stage of growth. From this it 

 presses on, hardening in its downward growth till the 

 latter part of summer or the commencement of the 

 rut, by which time the growth is perfected down to 

 the base, and is a complete weapon for warfare, and it 

 so continues during the rut, and until the growth of 

 the new horn is commenced and loosens the old one 

 from its core, and raises it from its seat, as has been 

 described." 



The range of the prong-horned antelope has been 

 very much curtailed of late years by the steady occu- 

 pation of the prairies and deserts of western America 

 by the insatiable white man. These antelopes used 

 once to collect at certain seasons of the year, it is said, 

 in immense droves ; and even yet there are locali- 

 ties, I was told, where upwards of one hundred may 

 sometimes be seen together. I have seen in all per- 

 haps a dozen little lots of these animals, varying in 

 number from two a female with her fawn to a 

 herd of from fifteen to twenty individuals, amongst 

 which were two fine males. They always reminded 

 me of spring bucks in South Africa, both by their 

 general colour and appearance and the arid nature of 

 their surroundings, and I should think they must 

 resemble Soemerring's gazelles at a little distance even 

 more nearly. 



The general colour of the prong-horned antelope 

 is fawn, with a conspicuous white rump and a white 



