194 
PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE. 
SYNONYMBS. 
TEUTHLAMACAMiE. Ilornandez, Nov.-IIispan, p. 324, fig, 324. An. 1651. 
Le Squenoton. Hist. d’Ameriqiie, p. 175. An. 1723. 
Squinaton. Dohb’s, Hudson’s Bay, p. 24. An. 1744. 
Aktilope, Caere or Goat. Gass Journal, pp. 49, 111. 
Antilope. Lewis and Clarke Joiirn., Vol. i., pp. 75, 208, 396; Vol. ii., p. 169, 
Aktilope Americana. Ord, Gnthrie’.s Geography. 1815. 
Cervus hamatu.s. Blainville, Nouv-Ball. Society. 1816. 
Aktilocapba Ameeic.ana. Ord, Jour, de Phys., p. 80. 1818. 
Aktilope fitboipek. C . Hamilton Smith, Lin. Trans., Vol. xiii., plate 2. An. 1823. 
Antilope palmata. Smith, Griffith, Cuv., Vol. v., p. 323. 
Antilope Americana. Harlan Fauna, p. 250. 
“ Godman, Nat. Hist., Vol. ii., p. 321 
Aktilope ruRCiEBE. Richardson, F. B. A,, p. 261, plate 21. 
DESCRIPTION. 
The Prong-horned Antelope posses, ses a stately and elegant form, and 
resembles more the antelope than the deer family. It is shorter and more 
compactly built than the Virginia deer ; its head and neck are also shorter 
and the .skull is broader at the base. The horns of the male are curved 
upwards and backwards with a short triangular prong about the centre, 
inclined inwards, not wrinkled. Immediately above the prong the horn 
diminishes to less than half the size, below the prong the horn is flat and 
very broad, extremity of the horn sharp and pointed, and of the prong 
blunt. There are irregular little points on the horns of the male, two or 
three on each side. One specimen has two on the inside of each horn and 
one on the outside ii'regularly disposed. 
Nostrils large and open, placed rather far back, eyes large and promi- 
nent, ears of moderate size, acuminate in shape ; on the back of the neck in 
winter specimens there is a narrow ridge of coarse hairs resembling a short 
mane. In summer there only remains of this mane a black stripe on the 
upper surface of the neck ; eyelashes profuse ; there is no under-fur. The 
hairs are of a singular texture, being thick, soft, wavy and slightly crimped 
beneath the surface : they are brittle, and when bent do not return to their 
original straight form, interiorly they are white, spongy and pithy; scrotum 
pendulous. There is not the slightest vestige of any secondary hoofs on 
either of its fore or hind legs, such as are seen in deer and other animals. The 
hoofs are strong and compact, small and diminishing suddenly to a point. 
COLOUR. 
The nose is yellowish brown, eye lashes black, the orbits with a blackish 
brown border, outer edge and points of the ears brownish black. There is 
