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ORDERS OF MAMMALS— HOOFED ANIMALS 
of animals of all sizes, many of them odd, and 
many of them noted for their beauty. The stu- 
dent who has a special liking for the large hoofed 
animals surely will find pleasure in making 
the acquaintance of such superb creatures as 
the sable antelope, the koodoo, the water-buck, 
the eland, the oryx, the gnu, the pallah, and the 
hartebeest of Africa. We have reason to envy 
Africa her exclusive possession of all those fine 
creatures, not to mention her other hoofed ani- 
mals, great and small. 
The Prong-Horned Antelope 1 is found only 
cent bullet flies true to the mark, it will destroy 
an animal more wonderful than the rarest or- 
chid that ever bloomed. 
Remember the ages which Nature has spent 
in fashioning this wonderful combination of keen 
eye, fleet foot and graceful limb, and preserving 
it from the extermination which overtook the 
great reptiles, rhinoceroses, and toothed birds of 
the vast inland sea now known as the Uintah 
Basin. Surely this animal is worth perpetual 
protection at our hands, rather than needless, 
cruel and inexcusable slaughter. It cannot 
Painted by Carl Rungius. 
PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE. 
in North America, and it possesses so many ana- 
tomical peculiarities, found in no other animal, 
that zoologists have created for it a separate 
Family, which it occupies in solitary state. It 
is like an island in a vast sea, unrelated. Let 
him who hereafter may be tempted, either law- 
fully or unlawfully, to raise a death-dealing rifle 
against one of these beautiful prairie rovers, 
remember two things before he pulls the trigger: 
In this land of plenty, no man really needs this 
creature’s paltry pounds of flesh; and if his two- 
1 An-ti-lo-cap'ra cnnericana. 
be perpetuated by breeding in captivity; and 
unless preserved in a wild state, it will become 
extinct. 
Behold the list of characters, in which this 
animal differs from all other antelopes: Al- 
though its horns grow over a bony core, they are 
shed and renewed every year; the horn bears a 
prong, and is placed directly over the eye; the 
feet have no “dew-claws”; the hair consists of a 
hollow tube filled with pith, coarse, harsh, straw- 
like and easily broken; and all the hair on the 
rump is fully erectile, like the bristles of swine. 
