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GENUS ANTILOCAPRA.— Ord. 
DENTAL FORMULA. 
Incisive - ; Canine ^ ; Molar — = 32. 
Horns common to both sexes ; small in the female ; horns persistent, 
greatly compressed, rough, pearled, slightly striated, with an anterior 
process, and the point inclining backwards ; eye large ; no suborbital 
sinus ; no inguinal pores ; no muzzle ; facial line, converse ; no canines ; 
no succentorial hoofs ; tail very short ; hair stiff, coarse, undulating, 
flattened ; female, mammas. 
Habit, peaceable, gregarious, herbivorous, confined to North-America. 
Only one well determined species belongs to this genus. 
The generic name Antilocapra, is derived from the two genera Antilope 
and Capra, Goat Antelope. 
ANTILOCAPEA AMEEICANA.— Okd. 
PRONG-HORNED AnTELOPB. 
PLATE L XXVI I. Male and Female. 
Cornibus pedalibus compressis, intus planis, antias granulatis striatisque 
propusrnaculo compresso procurvo cum cornum parte posteriore retrorsum 
uncinata furcam constitutiente ; colore russo fuscescente, gutture, cluni- 
umque disco albis ; statura, Cervus Virginianus. 
CHARACTERS. 
Horns compressea, ^at on the inner side, pearled and striated, with a com- 
pressed snag to the front ; colour, reddish dun ; throat and. disk on the but- 
tocks, ivhite. Size of the Virginia deer. 
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