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Africa, where there are many l^inds, and where herds 

 of thousands are sometimes seen together. Their 

 horns are hollow, composed of horn, and are variously 

 wrinkled and curved. Antelopes vary in size from 

 those as small as a Deer to those as large as a Horse. 

 Most of the Antelopes belong to Africa. 



The Pronghorn Antelope, of the Rocky Mountains, 

 is larger than a Sheep, with much longer neck and legs. 

 Its hair is coarse and thick. It ijets its name from the 



Fig. 63. — Frongliorn Anit:iope. 

 prong, or branch, on each horn. This annual was found 

 at times in large numbers, herds of a thousand and 

 more having often been seen. The progress of settle- 

 ment has exterminated the antelope over much of the 

 reo-ion which it once inhabited and in which it was so 

 abundant. It sheds its horns annually, and is the onl)- 

 Antelope which does so. 



The Mountain Goat of the Rocky Mountains, is an 

 Antelope, and not a true Goat, as one would suppose 



