Antelope in National Zoological Park. 
Discs closed. 
The same Antelope with discs half spread. 
On the Plains of New Mexico I never could 
toll Antelope, nor did I hear of anyone suc- 
ceeding in that country. In fact, the local 
hunters maintained that it was "played 
out " — the Antelope were too wary now to be 
taken in. 
My own experience with Antelope was 
chiefly on the Plains of the Canadian River 
and in western Wyoming, and I was there 
much struck by the smallness of the home 
locality that seemed to satisfy each band. 
A level stretch of open prairie two miles 
across was ample range for a herd of twenty 
the whole season. If there was water on it 
they seemed satisfied to stay indefinitely. 
Dr. Edward L. Munson, U. S. A., says : 
"For some weeks a band of several hundred 
were in a large pasture four miles square, 
several miles from Havre." {Forest 
Stream, January, 1897.) 
Mr. W. N. Byers, of Denver, Col., tells 
me that for several years in Middle Park he 
used to see one particular large buck An- 
telope near the road within a mile of the 
same place. He supposed it was there on 
account of a salt lick near. 
Dr. Canfield (of California) says: "Any 
particular band of Antelope does not leave 
the locality where they grow up, and never 
range more than a few miles in different di- 
rections." (Caton, "Ant. Deer Am.," p. 43.) 
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It is a common remark that when hunted 
the Antelope runs in a circle. A little re- 
■ flection will show that this is true of all ani- 
mals, and that this circle is always around 
the region that the creature knows, namely, 
its own home locality. 
During the summer the bands are scat- 
tered, but the indi^■idual range is even small- 
er. I have seen an old Antelope that made 
her summer home on the flat top of a butte 
that was less than 200 acres in extent. The 
males seem to be less local at this time than 
the females, and commonly wander in twos. 
But all this permanent residence of one 
spot seems to have been in regions where 
the winter was mild and the snow light. In 
the northern part of the range a different 
habit prevailed. At the first heavy snow 
the Antelope of the Upper Jackson's Hole 
moved 150 miles southward to the Red 
Desert. Those on the prairies of the Sas- 
katchewan moved into the coul ees and brakes 
100 miles southward and westward. Those 
of the Plains went toward the foot-hills, and 
those on the open country about the Black 
Hills flocked thither from aU points of the 
compass. 
Prof. Edward Carter tells me that they 
used to winter in vast numbers about 
Colorado Springs, and were common in the 
surrounding country all the rest of the 
year. 
