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VOLUME XXVI— No. 
NEW-YORK. JULY, 1867. 
NETS' SERIES— No. 246. 
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the PBOIfi HORN ANTELOPE OP THE GREAT 
This beautiful and spirited animal is found in 
immense herds along the base of the Rocky 
Mountains, from Mexico to the River Saskatche- 
wan, and eastvi ard to the Missouri River. They 
are larger than a common sheep, exceedingly 
agile, fleet, and of a graceful carriage. Their 
flesh is valued, as a Change from buffalo beef 
and salt pork, by the traveler and hunter, but 
it is not very good. The hair is coarse and 
brittle, and the pelt valueless. The horns are 
black, firm, and might be useful if obtained iu 
sufficient numbers. The color above is yellow- 
ish brown; the belly while, as is also a square 
patch on the rump; other markings are some- 
what irregular, but prevailingly, as shown in the 
engraving. The herds of these animals are often 
many miles in extent, and, from an elevation! 
appear like the shallow of a moving cloud, as 
they pass over the prairie. They live and thrive 
upon the dry prairie grasses, and, like the buffalo, 
are more or less migratory — moving with the 
> supply of pasturage. The variety of horn " pat- 
PLAINS . — From studies, by J. E. Hayes. 
ems," so to speak, among the antelopes, is very 
great. That no two should be alike would bo 
expected, but the cause for such great dissimi- 
larity iu the horns of animals, so much alike in 
nature and habits, it is impossible to know. 
Some are very straight, some curve outward, 
some backward, some inward, some are twist- 
ed, others spiral, like a corkscrew ; some have 
prongs, and others curious crooks and bends. 
There is but one other American antelope, and 
that is known as the Rocky Mountain Goat. 
