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Boone and Crockett Club of New York, who 
bore the expenses of the transfer. 
The pronghorn is unlike any other antelope 
on the face of the earth, and has so many pe- 
culiarities that naturalists class it in a family 
by itself. Formerly existing by thousands on 
our open western plains, it has now been so 
reduced in numbers that its absolute extinction 
is certain in the very near future unless pro- 
tection is given to the few remaining. It does 
not do well east of the Mississippi river, and 
can not be successfully bred in captivity; but 
it thrives if allowed to roam practically free 
within large enclosures and under conditions 
closely approaching the natural ones. In 1908 
the Biological Survey estimated that the total 
number of antelope in the United States had 
been reduced to' 17,000. Of these about 10,000 
were in Montana, Wyoming, and the Yellow- 
stone National Park, and the remaining 7,000 
were distributed in 12 other states. On the 
Wichita Game Refuge it is hoped that the ante- 
lope will find themselves in surroundings suited 
to their increase. 
The Wichita is really a National Forest, but 
