PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE, 
WHITE GOAT, COUGAR, JAGUAR, WOLF 
AND WALRUS 
HE prong-buck or prong-horned antelope belongs to the family 
Antilocapridce, which is quite distinct from and yet possibly a sub- 
family of the Bovidce. This family, which consists of a single 
genus, Antilocapra (Ord, 1818), and of one species, which is only 
found in North America, has certain peculiarities of the giraffes, 
^ goats, antelopes and deer. The prong-horn is a ruminant and, 
like the giraffe, has two hoofs on each foot. Its similarity to the goats is 
seen in possessing a gall-bladder and a system of scent-glands; like the 
deer it has four teats, long hair and an under coat of wool. Its horns are 
like the goat’s, with a bony core; nevertheless, as in deer, the horns are 
branched and shed every year. The word cabrit, or cabrie, as used by the 
French Canadians, is probably a Basque corruption from the Spanish 
cabra (a goat), but Dr Coues thinks that it may be a native word which 
has been adapted. 
A good buck is about 37| inches at the shoulder; head and body, length 
47f inches; tail, 3f inches. A large male weighed by Mr E. S. Dodge scaled 
125 lb. The general colour of the adult male is a rich fawn, with the sides 
of the face, nape of the neck, base of the ears, two bands on the throat, 
breast, belly, rump and inside of the legs, white. The upper part of the 
muzzle, a patch under each ear, eyes, horns, hoofs and short mane are 
black. The female is similar in colour, with the black parts less defined 
and the spots under the ears often absent. The young are at first greyish - 
brown, with pale markings of the adult colours, which they assume during 
the first winter. 
The horns are the most remarkable feature of this animal. The outside 
case is branched and shed each year like the antlers of a deer. This inter- 
esting fact was first observed by Rufus B. Sage in 1841, and though 
Judge Caton published a detailed account of the shedding of horns annually, 
the fact was not generally accepted by naturalists until about the year 
1886. Caton’s observations show that the male at birth has a small bony 
excrescence over each eye. At four months this breaks through the skin 
in the small and movable horn. In the following January, when an inch 
long, this is pushed off by the new horn growing below it, this being on 
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