SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



jirocess, and the point uncinating backwards ; dark coloured, 

 placed upon the orbits, at right angles to the plane of the 

 face, impending over the eyes ; no suborbital sinus ; no in- 

 guinal pores ; no muzzle ; facial line convex ; tail very short ; 

 hair stiff, coarse, undulating, flattened, enclosing a sort oj 

 marrow. Female mammce ? horns ? structure cervine. Con- 

 fined to North America. 



808. 1. A. Furdfer (Prong-horned Antelope.) Mixed 

 resemblance between the Chamois and Roebuck; horns 

 one foot in length, compressed, flat on the inner side, 

 pearled and striated, with a compressed snag to the 

 front ; forking with the after part which forms a hook to 

 the rear; eyes large, high in the head; nostrils ovine; 

 colour foxy-dun, with a spot on the summit of the head ; 

 throat and disk on the buttocks, white ; tail very short ; 

 stature about three feet at the shoulder. 



Antilocapra Americana, Ord. Cervus Bifurcatus, Raf- 

 finesque. A. Furcifer, Ham. Smith., Desmurests. Cabree 

 of the Canadians. 



Icon. Lin. Trans, vol. xiii. Nobis. 



Habitat. The borders of the Missouri, and plains of the 

 North Western States, and along the Columbia. 



809. 2. * A. Palmata (Palmated A.) Horns greatly com- 

 pressed, with anterior and posterior edges, broad, dark, 

 strongly pearled and striated ; on the anterior edge near 

 thie base, a broad, flat, leaf-like, obtuse, and deflected pro- 

 cess, forming a bifurcation with the posterior, which forms 

 a curvilinear hook to the rear, and inwards ; head shorter 

 than the preceding; facial line nearly straight ; fur softer, 

 partially woolly, hoary without; a little white on the face, 

 and on the croup; stature of a roebuck. 



Mazame ? Herjiandes, lib. ix. cap. 14. Cervus Haniatus, 

 Blainv. A. Palmata, Ham. Smith. 



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