Archive image from page 152 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 RUMINANTIA. 141 Fig, 62.—Prong-horned Antelope. Near it, we conceive, should be placed the Addax, tog-ether with the A. sylvaiica, decula, scripta, and one or two others. The A. scripta, or Harnessed Antelope, is an elegant small species, the Gtcib of Buffon, of a lively fulvous colour, marked with /laniess-Mke white stripes and spots. The A. zebra has dark regular stripes across the crupper.] i. Horns bifurcated, (Antilocapra
Archive image from page 152 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 RUMINANTIA. 141 Fig, 62.—Prong-horned Antelope. Near it, we conceive, should be placed the Addax, tog-ether with the A. sylvaiica, decula, scripta, and one or two others. The A. scripta, or Harnessed Antelope, is an elegant small species, the Gtcib of Buffon, of a lively fulvous colour, marked with /laniess-Mke white stripes and spots. The A. zebra has dark regular stripes across the crupper.] i. Horns bifurcated, (Antilocapra, Ord ; Dicranoceros, Smith). Of all the forms of hollow horns, this is the most singular : a compressed branch is given off from their base or trunk, almost like the antler of a Stag ; the pointed tips curve back- ward. Tlie best known species is Tlie Cnn7of the Canadians (A. furcifera, H, Smith), which inhabits the extensive plains of the centre and west of North America in vast herds : its size is nearly that of the Roe ; hair thick, waved, and reddish ; the antler of its horns situate near the middle of their height. [Nearly allied is the A. pal- mata, Smith, decidedly a distinct species, which has palmated forked horns, that it employs in scooping away the snow : it is a mountain animal, the range of which appears to be more southward than that of the other.] k. Four horns {Tetraceros, Leach). This subdivision, recently discovered in India, was not unknown to the ancients. MMslu speaks of it, xv. c. 14, by the name of the Four-horned Oryx : the anterior pair are before the eyes, the posterior completely behind the frontal. [As the position of the horns varies in some groups of two-horned Antelopes, it may be that the anterior pair of the fourhorned species are represented in the greater number, and the posterior pair in the Bush Ante- lopes (PhUantomba).'] The Tchicarra (A. chicarra, Hardw.).—Size of a Roe, and nearly uniform fulvous : no horns in the female sex. It i
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