1876.] The American Antelope, or Prong Buck. 197 
haps best described and located by Dr. Murie. All are dermal 
glands. Two are sub-auricular, and covered by the dark patches 
already mentioned. There are two ischiatic glands at the points 
of the hips below the tail, and another pair is found at the hocks, 
and there is an interdigital gland on each foot. Besides the ten 
glands which may be said to be in pairs, there is a single gland 
on the top of the back at the anterior border of the white patch. 
There is no lachrymal sinus. 
From these glands is emitted an odor more pungent at some 
seasons than at others, and more observable from the old males 
than from the females or the young males; still, it is observable 
in all at all times. : 
The eye is exceptionally large for the size of the animal. It 
is much larger than that of any of the deer, the ox, or the horse. 
The entire exposed part of the orb is intensely black, so that I 
have never been able by the closest. scrutiny to distinguish the 
pupil from the iris on the living subject. While it is brilliant, it 
is mild, soft, and gentle. It is the eye of the antelope gazelle, 
only larger and blacker, as I have often compared them when 
standing side by side. This animal has been often called the 
American gazelle. A female gazelle from Asia, in my grounds, 
showed a disposition to associate and play with a young prong 
buck, but with no other animal in the grounds. I have seen our 
antelope weep copious tears, when in deep affliction. 
n domestication this animal loses its wild timidity sooner and 
more completely than any other animal fere nature whose do- 
mestication I have attempted. When taken young it soon ac- 
quires the attachment of a child for the human species, and when 
captured adult in a short time becomes so tame that it will take 
food from the hand and follow one by the hour, walking through 
the grounds. It soon perceives that it has nothing to fear, and 
then readily bestows its confidence. It is not generally healthy 
m domestication, probably from the humidity of our climate and 
© want of some alimentary element which it finds in its native 
Plains, Many are afflicted with scrofula, and some linger and 
die without any well-defined disease. I have never yet been able 
to keep one in my grounds for a single year, but am still contin- 
ung my experiments. 
I have never yet heard of an instance where they have bred in 
domestication, although the males especially are excessively sala- 
“ous in their inclinations; but I have yet to learn of a case of 
actual fertility, 
