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Antilope furcifer, H. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii, p. 28, pi. iii, 

 1822, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 170, vol. v, p. 323, 

 1827. 



Antilope (Dioranocerus) furcifer, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. V, pp. 322 and 323, 1827. 



(?) Antilope palmata, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, 

 p. 169, 1827.* 



Antilocapra furcifer, BrooTces, Cat. Mus. p. 64, 1828 ; Gray, List 

 Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 170, 1847. 



Dicranoceros furcifer, Jardine, Naturalist's Lihr., Mamm. vol. iii, 

 p. 193, pi. xxii, 1835. 



Peonghorn, Peongbcck or Ameeican Antelope. 



Typical locality the Missouri plains ; the range extending 

 from the valley of the Saskatchewan — lat. 53 N. — south- 

 wards to Mexico, and from the plains of the Missouri west- 

 wards to the Eocky Mountains and the Cascade Range in 

 Oregon and Washington. 



Somewhat antelope-like, with relatively long limbs ; 

 shoulder-height about 36 inches ; general colour yellowish 

 rufous, with a band on forehead between eyes, a patch below 

 each ear, and nose sooty, brown ; lips, chin, sides of lower part 

 of head, three bands on throat and chest, the first of which 



* If identical with this species, the locality (Baffin Bay) must be 

 wrong. 



