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2. Genus ANTILOCAPRA, Ord. Jour, du Phys. (1818). 

 1. Antilocapra AMERICANA {Ord.). — The American Antelope. 



Antilope americana, Ord. Guthrie's Geography, II, p. 292 (1815). 



Cervus hamatus, Blainville, Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philad. Paris, p. 10 (1816). 



Antilope furdfer, Hamilton Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, p. 28 (1822). 



Faun. Bor. Am. Mamra. Plate XXI. Audubon and Bachman, 

 Quad, of N. A. Plate LXXVII; octavo edition, III, Plate LXXVII. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, Plate II. 



We find several allusions to this interesting animal in the notes of 

 Dr. Pickering. Under date of 24th of August, 1841, in California, he 

 says : 



" To-day, a small herd of antelopes was seen, and allowed me to 

 approach within gunshot. This animal when living is scarcely so 

 light and graceful as its name would lead us to expect, and, in fact, 

 appeared to me to much resemble the deer in its movements ; but its 

 horns look larger proportionately. Of those seen to-day, one only 

 had horns, and nearly all the others appeared to be young. Color the 

 same as in the Missouri species, and apparently in all respects the 

 same animal." 



Subsequently, he observes : 



" Dr. Marsh assures me that the horns of this animal are shed 

 annually like those of the deer. The small figure representing a front 

 view of this animal, in Fauna Boreali Americana, is good, and gives 

 a much better idea of it than the larger. The running figure is bad. 

 Hernandez gives a good description under the name of Teiifldlal- 

 macame. The hair is remarkably coarse, and as if inflated, and is 

 easily detached from the skin. It certainly forms a genus distinct 

 from any of the antelopes of the Old World that I have ever had an 

 opportunity of seeing." 



