Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . THE RIGHT END OF THE GROUP, SHOWING ALL OF THE PRONGHORNS 183. FENDLERS CACTUS WITH TWENTY-THREE MAROONBLOSSOMS: DETAIL OF THE GROUP special adaptations to an arid habitat, and notes on manyother interesting features of desert botany, the reader isreferred to the Quarteria article by Mary B. Morris,Plants of the Desert, cited above. The dominant faunal features of tlie group are, ofcourse, the five pronghorn antelopes—t\^o bucks, a doe, and apair of half-grown fawns. Of all mammals, the pronghornis most distinctively North American, for it is the sole repre-sentativ
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . THE RIGHT END OF THE GROUP, SHOWING ALL OF THE PRONGHORNS 183. FENDLERS CACTUS WITH TWENTY-THREE MAROONBLOSSOMS: DETAIL OF THE GROUP special adaptations to an arid habitat, and notes on manyother interesting features of desert botany, the reader isreferred to the Quarteria article by Mary B. Morris,Plants of the Desert, cited above. The dominant faunal features of tlie group are, ofcourse, the five pronghorn antelopes—t\^o bucks, a doe, and apair of half-grown fawns. Of all mammals, the pronghornis most distinctively North American, for it is the sole repre-sentative of a family of ungulates found nowhere else. Inits anatomical structin-e it combines certain characteristics ofthe deer, the wild cattle, and the true antelopes. It is the onlyhollow-horned ungulate that periodically sheds tlie sheaths ofits horns; another unique feature is the absence t)f dew-clawson its feet. It is a splendid example of a highly-specialized,essentially plains-living creature, and all o])servers agreethat in swiftness of foot it surpasses any other native Ameri-ca
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