ITS 
FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
THE AMERICAN ANTELOPE, OR THE PRONG-HORN. 
ANTILOPE AMERICANA. 
Antelope; Lewis and Clarke, i. 75, 208, 369; ii. 169. Antilope 
Americana; Ord. Guthrie's Geography, Philad. edition, 1815. 
Antilocapra Americana; Ibid. Journal de Physique, 1818, 
Say ; Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, i. 363, 485. 
Antilope Furcifer; Smith, Trans, of Linncean Soc. xiii. pi. 2. 
Prong-horned Antelope; Sab. App. p. 667. 
“ Our adventurous countrymen, who led the first expedition 
across the Rocky Mountains, were the first to call attention to 
this beautiful animal, and the first to call it by its true name. 
“ Notwithstanding the obviousness of all the other characters, 
the circumstance of its having an offset or prong to its horns, 
kept nomenclators for years undecided as to what place it should 
occupy in their arrangements, and gave them an opportunity, 
by which they have not failed to profit, of multiplying words and 
republishing their own names, if they made no addition to our 
information on the subject. All that has been related concern¬ 
ing this animal, which is worth repeating or remembering, was 
published in Lewis and Clarke’s narrative above quoted, and has 
since been confirmed by the observation of Dr. Richardson, 
appended to Franklin’s Journey to the Polar Sea. Leaving 
to the nomenclators their disputations about what DeKay has 
happily called * the barren honors of synonyme,’ we shall glean 
the few facts contained in the narrations of the above-mentioned 
accurate observers of nature. 
“ The Prong-horn Antelope is an animal of wonderful fleet¬ 
ness, and so shy and timorous as seldom to repose, except on 
ridges which command a view of the surrounding country. 
The acuteness of their sight ana the exquisite delicacy of their 
smell, renders it exceedingly difficult to approach them; and 
when once the danger is perceived, the celerity with which the 
