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frequently noted, ranging upward through the whole of the pine 

 zone. In June the mule deer was most frequently seen on the ridges 

 in the pine forest ; but the antelope came down into grassy openings 

 called " parks," or else lived in the most open pine woods. One buck 

 was so gentle, or possessed so much curiosity, that I killed it with 

 my shotgun. Another was shot near Flagstaff as late in the year as 

 November 4, 1885. Five antelope were passed by near the head- 

 quarters of the Arizona Cattle Company, near Flagstaff, Arizona, 

 June 3, 1887. We afterwards found them abundant on the timbered 

 ravines and slopes of San Francisco Mountain, where again some 

 were killed with the shotgun. Enormous herds were seen in open 

 parks near the base of the San Francisco cone. The highest were 

 seen at the altitude of 2,500 meters (8,250 feet), above Little Spring, 

 at the nbrth base. 



East of the, Verde Valley antelope were first noted as seen between 

 Clear Creek and Saw Log, October 2, 1884. At Mud Tanks, a few 

 miles farther up the MogoUon Mountains, they were always to be 

 found from 1884 to 1888. I saw them at many places on the Mogol- 

 lon Mesa during those years; but the herds were smaller than those 

 around the base of San Francisco Mountain. 



In his Snake Dance of the Moquis, Capt. John G. Bourke gives the 

 following : 



We passed [near the Hopi villages in nortlieast Arizona] close to an antelope 

 " corral " of the Navajoes. These are made of two converging lines of stone and 

 brush. The Navajo warriors, mounting their fleetest ponies, will scour the coun- 

 try for rtniles, driving before them the luckless game, which after a while reaches 

 the narrowest point of the corral and then falls a victim to the hunters in 

 ambush. The Indians are careful not to kill all, but to allow a few to escape. 

 This forbearance is' partly based upon a desii'e to allow the game to reproduce, 

 and is partly religious in character. 



Many of these antelope fences were seen in eastern Arizona. 

 The antelope has given rise to several place names in the South- 

 west, among them Antelope Tanks, in the Great San Francisco For- 

 est, and Antelope, on Ash Creek, only a few miles from Bumble 

 Bee, Yavapai County, Arizona, where we killed an antelope March 

 "26, 1885, on a march across southern Arizona and New Mexico to 

 Texas and returning. On this expedition antelopre were noted as 

 follows: Between Red Rock and Rillito, Arizona, an adult female 

 antelope was brought in by a soldier. Some were seen between 

 Lordsburg and Separ, New Mexico, April 16, 1885. From Separ to 

 Gage, New Mexico, antelope signs were everywhere abundant; and 

 from their numerous tracks they must have been present in large 

 bands. On May 2, 1885, in the foothills near Dragoon Summit, on 



