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crop of woolly hairs among, and about two-thirds the length of, the 

 coarse ones, and that the winter coat has a bluish or purplish cast 

 when it first appears, and afterwards fades to a lighter colour. It is 

 easy to catch the kids of the Antelopes while yet small, while only 

 a few davs old. If a week old, it is difficult to catch them, and they 

 will not live if caught. One I obtained under very singular circum- 

 stances. I shot a doe Antelope very heavy with young, and broke 

 one of her hind legs ; I chased her down without much difficulty, 

 and, immediately cutting her throat, opened the belly to empty it of 

 its contents, when I perceived that one of the two fetuses with which 

 she was pregnant was still alive. I instantly delivered it from the 

 uterus and membranes and tied the umbilical cord. The kid (a male) 

 breathed and was lively, and I carried it home three or four miles. 

 It sucked readily an artificial teat supplied with cows' milk, and 

 throve well for several days. At the end of that time, being obliged 

 to leave home, I left it (with one or two other little Antelopes) to 

 be taken care of by other persons. For want of care they all died 

 in my absence. Kids a day or two old, when chased, run a little 

 way and throw themselves flat down on the ground to hide them- 

 selves. In three different seasons I caught some twenty little ones, 

 but of all these I was able to raise only two males. Almost all young 

 Antelopes, upon exercising a little patience towards them, will suck an 

 artificial teat, and after a while learn to drink. I used a horn like 

 a powder-horn, but open at the large end, and with a quill inserted 

 in the small end so that it projected an inch, and wrapped around 

 with soft cloth ; I fed them on cows' milk, new and sweet. At first, 

 for a few days, they are exposed to have an attack of diarrhoea or 

 dysentery. If they escape this they live a long time, one, two, or 

 three months, growing slowly ; but at the end of this time all the 

 female kids and almost all the male ones become diseased, have, 

 scrofulous inflammation of the joints, get a cough, become lame and 

 poor, and finally die, after lingering some weeks. I never yet have 

 known of & female Antelope being raised artificially ; the males are 

 more hardy, and with care nearly all can be raised. I think that 

 cows' milk is not sufficient nutrition for them ; for the milk of the 

 Antelope is very rich and sweet, like that of the goat ; and I should 

 expect to succeed better in raising them on goats', or even by enrich- 

 ing cows' milk with sugar, boiled cornmeal, &c. In the spring of 

 1855, of seven or eight that I caught, I succeeded in starting only 

 two kids, a buck and a doe. They both grew well for several months, 

 were gentle and great pets, when the doe became diseased with the 

 scrofulous trouble of which I have spoken, and, after three or four 

 weeks, died of phthisis pulmonalis, as a sectio cadaveris showed. 

 The male, however, continued in good health; and in July or August 

 his horns began to appear, very small at first, conical, and concealed 

 in the hair of the forehead. They grew to be perhaps | of an 

 inch long and quite blunt, when they dropped off, in the month of 

 December I think, leaving small mammillary knobs that projected 

 from the frontal region about i an inch, and were slightly villous 

 with silky hairs. Within a day or two, or a week at most, these 



