The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-16
TIE AMERICAN ANTELOPE.
a.uur.FoorRD GAME NOW Al.
MOST EXTINCT.

peclally rs shown In tneir heau
Quarters Of South Africa, that the!
stand out conspicuously asconnect
ing links. They grade of almost indis-
9. tins...=...-.syiiy into sneep, goats, deer ant
even the OK. Often In the hornlesi
females dissection IL necessary for dis
tinction. The horns, which are always
present In the mslc aud usually In the
females, are round, without sharp edges,
and though compressed are usually an.
nulated, while those OF the goat and
sheep have abrupt edges aud are usually
grooged longitudinally. Those OF all
the bovines come out sideways and are
cylindric aud smooth. Deers horns are
all rough, much brsnched, solid aud
deciduous. Autelopes are like the sheep
in the general presence OF the gland be,
tween the hoofs aud under the eye, aud
they are like the goats in the presence OF
horns in both sexes, which have nc
tendency t., recurve forward. They
share with the deer the tear PIT and
many other peculiarities of form and
anatomy, while some are like the OK in
bulk aud body. Our pronghorn, how
ever, differs much from the Old World
genera. With it the tear duct is absent,
s as in the goat; the horns are branchcd,
as in the deer, aud the accessory hoofs
are wanting as in no other ruminant ex-
cent the giraffe. 1t lacks, also, certain
groin glands found in the African kind,
and the British Encycloped a states that
it drops the sheaths Of its horus annually.
have been unable to find any American
record Of this fact. Ii the statement be
true, it forms, in this respect, con-
nectin. link between tho hollow.horned
and solid horned ruminauts not found
elsewhere.
The horns OF our prongbucle are apt to
vary much with age, the protubcrance in
front being often wanting in the young,
which would argue to some extent tue
annual shedding Of tho sheath. Tho
eyes are bright and prominent, enabliny
it we'll to see its pursuers during flight
aud to keep good lookout before. In
the adult, IL M IKE, no attempt at C)n.
cealment aud from its eaemy it expects
nothing but a knowledge OF his ap-
proach. The color of the pronghorn is
generally a tawny bro wn, shading off bs
low and backward into light fawn color.
Beneath it is white. While this would
argue certain amount Of color -protec-
tio, when lying down, the two trans
verse white bars across the breast, aud
the conspicuous white disk around the
tail argue that on approach or flight no
attempt ut conccalment is lnteudcd.
The rear mark is claimed by Mr.. Wallace,
the great English naturalist, as an exam
pie Of guiding mark specialized for the
purpose of enabling the young and weak
to follow better in flight, but he leaves
the purpose of tho breast bars uuex.
planned. ia keeping with the theory,
they Ray better enable the flock to rcas,
semble, or the young to run to the
mother rs she returns to its hiding place,
for, like other ruminnnts, she often hides
her young while she leeds. 10 Il natur-
alist the marks would ut once imply that
the animal was night iecder, or at least
knowledge. She kids are never spotted
NOT even ut any stage before nirth-a
fact hlnttnS no close relationship 10 tho
deer. The hair, resembling coarse rottcd
manila strands, Is hollow ike feathers,
and crushes into Ira tments readily De
tween the hnSers. lhey stahu out on
end IKE prlstlcs III nrush' vary'n III
length IRON one 'nch on tue s'aes I'd iour
TO SIX lncheS on the meek, wnetc 'ioy
form sort OF name, cTccicd during
anger or excitement.
Ihc antelope Is ABOUT eXterhluateu
from the plains east oil the RpcNy Mount
AIMS now, where 1t recently ransei irom
Central America to ABOUT latltuae htty-
three degrees north. IL m'Sratc' sh9nIiy
Horth anu south VITA tho seasons. IL
wa was no uncommon hn anins as a',S a. 20
,ra;ns 80 .hav orns.nl tho 1I,;ns and
uorr fa;r Innr.r,rrn hunting cnula hr
had thcn nnt nnw one mn5t ro bi,ber
49,, into tbs Icss freoucntcj mountaip
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WAGON or nacks hut fair saddle hbr;e,
ora noc.ss;,v for tha rama il ofte,
found in rather inaccessible nIac,s The
cool niphts will reouire all n.e1ful c,n.
forts for c,mnino While n sncaking
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