PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE. 
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Smith is in many respects preferable, as being more classically correct, 
still, if we were to be governed by the principle that we should reject a 
genus because the compound word from which it is derived is composed 
of two languages, or if it does not designate the precise character of the 
species, we would be compelled to abandon many familiar genera, estab- 
lished by Linn,®us himself. 
The specific name of Ord, we have also adopted in preference to the 
more characteristic one “ furcifer” of Smith, under a rule which we have 
laid down in this work not to alter a specific name that has been legiti- 
mately given. 
We have added the A pahnata, palmated Antelope of Major Smith, as a 
synonyme. We have compared so many specimens differing from each 
other in shades of colour and size of horns, that we have scarcely a doubt 
of his having described a very old male of the Prong-horned Antelope. 
