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WHITE MOUNTAIN GOATS. 



thriven as well, and grown as rapidly, as they would have 

 in a state of nature. Their food consists of the best clovei 

 hay obtainable, and crushed oats. When they shed theii' 

 coats, in the spring, they are almost as white as snow, but 

 with months of use, their pelage becomes soiled and slightly 

 discolored. 



A fully adult male mountain goat stands from 39 to 41 

 inches in shoulder height, and weighs, on scales, from 258 tc 

 300 pounds. Besides this flock, there is at this date only 

 one other specimen living in a zoological garden. 



THE PRONG-HOENED ANTELOPE. 



The Prong'-Horned Antelope, {Antilocapra americana), is 

 an animal in which Americans should now take special in- 

 terest. Beyond all possibility of doubt, it will be our next 

 large species to become extinct, and if we may .iudge by the 

 rate at which the bands have been disappearing during the 

 last fifteen years, ten years more will, in all probability, wit- 



