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mountains, where they form the chief game of the Shoshonees.. They frequent open’ 
prairies and low hills, interspersed with clumps of wood, but are not met with in! 
the continuously-wooded country. Major Smith has fallen into an unaccountable 
mistake in supposing that the palmated antilope inhabits ‘“ the bleak regions 
near the frozen ocean,” and that specimens. have been brought from Baffin’s Bay. 
No specimens whatever of this antilope were obtained on any of the expeditions: 
to Baffin’s Bay, nor is there any mention made of the animal either in the’ 
narrative or Zoological appendices of Captain Ross’s or of any of Captain Parry's 
voyages. Ifan imaginary line be drawn from the mouth of the Mackenzie, in 
longitude 135° to the intersection of the 100th degree of longitude, with the 53d. 
parallel of latitude, it cuts off to the eastward a very large portion of the continent,’ 
which I am certain is not inhabited by either goat, sheep, or antilope. The only 
ruminating animals of that rocky but well-watered tract, which, to the south of 
latitude 60°, is in general woody, and to the north barren, are the moose, caribou, 
and musk-ox. The last is confined to the northern parts, the moose to the 
woody districts, and the caribou migrates from one to the other according to the 
season. ‘The bison is found on the confines of the above-mentioned line, but 
T believe does not wander far to the eastward of the Slave and Churchill or 
Missinippi rivers. 
The head and horns of a young male, and the entire skin of a very young suit 
of this antilope were obtained at Carlton on Captain Franklin’s first expedition, © 
and deposited, the former at the College of Surgeons, and the latter at the British ~ 
Museum. On his last expedition, heads of the adult male and female, together — 
with the entire skin of a male two years old, were brought from the same place. 
The latter is now in the Zoological Museum, and the accompanying etching by 
Landseer was made from it, but the horns were added from the adult male head. 
Very lately the institution just mentioned has received several good specimens 
. from the Hudson’s Bay Company, - 
The prong-horned antilope appears on the banks of the Saskatchewan some- 
times a solitary animal, sometimes assembled in herds of ten or twelve. Its sight 
and. sense of smell are acute, and its speed is greater than that of any other 
inhabitant of the plains, although I have been informed by Mr. Prudens, who has 
resided forty years in that quarter, that when there is a little snow on the ground 
it may, with some little management, be run down by a high bred horse. The In-. 
dian hunters have no difficulty in bringing an antilope within gun-shot, by various — 
stratagems, such as lying down on their backs and kicking their heels in the air, 
