THE QUADRUPEDS OF ARIZONA. 537 
ite resorts. In warm weather, and particularly during 
ie the heat of the day, after its morning graze and drink, it 
r is fond of repairing to the thickest brush, where it lies 
down, and doubtless sleeps, as at such times it may be 
more easily and nearly approached than at others. 
I cannot positively determine the White-tailed Deer 
of Arızona, as I never procured a specimen. It may be 
a race of C. Virginianus, or that species called C. Mexi- 
canus in Professor Baird’s work, or not impossibly the C. 
leucurus Douglass. The white-tailed deer of our conti- 
‘nent are all so closely allied, that it requires a practised 
eye and patient labor to distinguish them with any degree 
of certainty; and I believe it is a question with some, 
: whether they all are not merely local races of one com- 
mon stock. 
Though the dry plains of Arizona are not frequented by 
deer, still they are not wanting in inliabitants among the 
beasts “that cleave the hoof.” Over them the Prong- 
horned Antelope (Antilocapra Americana), the swiftest 
animal of America, runs races with the winds, making 
the long miles shrink into mere spans at the touch of his 
‘ almost magic hoofs, whose impress upon the green sward 
writes down, in wild yet graceful stanzas, the “poetry of 
motion” which every attitude and movement of his supple 
form embodies. As on the land-sea of the Great Plains, 
_ 50 on every land-lake of Arizona he is at home; for home 
to him means the grassy surface of the earth, where his 
_ food is under and around him, and water may be reached 
by a bagatelle canter of a score or so of miles. 
Every one has heard of that strange trait of the Ante- 
lope’s character, which leads it irresistibly to approach 
any unusual object which it cannot make out, for a nearer 
View of the thing which so Saoi: excites its astonish- 
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