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simple and permanent, instead of branched and deciduous, there is no alternative but to 
expunge the name from the systems, or to keep it until we find an animal with horns like the 
giraffe, only much longer, and not covered by a skin. 
In reality, Rafinesque seems never to have seen, certainly never to have examined critically, 
the animals he refers to. 
ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA, Ord. 
Prong Horn Antelope : Cabree. 
Avlilope americana, Ord. Guthrie’s Geog. (2d Amer. edition) II, 1815, 292, 308. 
Harlan, F. Am. 1825, 250. 
Godman, Am. N. H. II, 320. 
Doughty, Cab. N. H. II, 1833, 49 ; pi. v, (figure taken from Lewis and Clark’s specimen, in 
Peale’s museum.) 
Maximilian, Reise in das innere Nord-Amerika, I, 1839, 403. 
Antilocapra americana, Of.d. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1818, 146.— Ib. Journal de Physique, LXXXVII, 1818, 149. 
J. E. Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, 1850, 19.— Ib. Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. XVIII, 1850, 137. 
Aud. & Bach. N. Am. Quad. II, 1851, 193 ; pi. lxxvii. 
Baird, Bep. U. S. Pat. Off. Agricultural for 1851 (1852); plate, (from Richardson.) 
Dicranoceros americanus, Turner, Pr. Zool. Soc. xviii, 1850, 174. 
“ Cervus hamatus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philomat. 1816, 73.” 
Antilope furcifer, Ham. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. XIII, 1822, 28; pi. ii.— Ib. Griff. Cuv. IV, 1827, 170; 
plate. 
Desmarest, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 
Rich. F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 261; pi. xxi. 
Wagner, Schreher’s Saugt. V, 1836 ; plate cclxxix, A. 
Giebel, Zoologie ; Saugt. 1855, 305. 
Antilocapra furcifer, Desmarest, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 
Antilope (Dicranoceros) furcifer, Ham. Smith, Griffith’s Cuv. V, 1827, 323. 
Wagner, Suppl. Schreh. IV, 1844, 403 — Ib. V, 1855, 461. 
Mazama furcifer, Ogilby, Pr. Zool. Soc. IV, 1836, 137. 
Dicranoceros furcifer, Sundevall, Kong. Sv. Vetensk. Handl. for 1844.— Ib. Hornschuch, Archiv Skand. Beit. II, 
.1850, 268. 
Antilopepalmata, Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, 1822, 31; plate III, (horn.)—I b. Griffith’s Cuvier, IV, 1827, 323. 
Desmarest, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 
Ogilby, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. IV, 1836, 121.— Ib. Lond. & Ed. Phil. Mag. XI, 1837, 126. 
Wagner, in Schreber’s Saugt. V, i, 1836, 1250 ; pi. ccxliv, D,® (horns.) 
Antilocapra palmata, Desmarest, Mamm. II, 1822, 479. 
Antilope (Dicranoceros) palmata, Ham. Smith, Griff. Cuv. V, 1827, 323. 
?? Ixalusprobaton,' Ogilby, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1836, 119, (Artie America?) 
? Antilope anteflexa, Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc. 
Teuthlalmagame, Hernandez. (According to Berlandier.) 
Berendo, of the modern Mexicans. (Berlandier.) 
8p. Ch.— Color above yellowish brown, or pale dun color ; a narrow transverse hand between the eyes, the top and sides of 
the muzzle, and a patch beneath the ear, (wanting in the female,) liver brown ; edges of upper lip, chin and sides of face, 
spot behind the ear, a narrow crescent on the upper part of the throat, a triangular patch below this, the entire under 
parts and a square patch on the rump, white. Horns, hoofs, and naked parts of the nose, black. 
Horns rudimentary or wanting in the female. 
Sundevall refers to this as the Ovis ixalon of Blythe, from Chile. 
