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Show 1866.] DR. C. A. CANFIELD O N T H E PRONGBUCK. 107 crop of woolly hairs among, and about two-thirds the length of, coarse ones, and that the winter coat has a bluish or purplish cast when it first appears, and afterwards fades to a lighter colour. It is easy to catch the kids of the Antelopes while yet small, while only a few days old. If a week old, it is difficult to catch them, and they will not live if caught. One I obtained under very singular circumstances. I shot a doe Antelope very heavy with young, and broke one of her hind legs ; I chased her down without much difficulty, and, immediately cutting her throat, opened the belly to empty it of its contents, when I perceived that one of the two foetuses with which she was pregnant was still alive. I instantly delivered it from the uterus and membranes and tied the umbilical cord. The kid (a male) breathed and was lively, and I carried it home three or four miles. It sucked readily an artificial teat supplied with cows' milk, and throve well for several days. At the end of that time, being obliged to leave home, I left it (with one or two other little Antelopes) to be taken care of by other persons. For want of care they all died in my absence. Kids a day or two old, when chased, run a little way and throw themselves flat down on the ground to hide themselves. In three different seasons I caught some twenty little ones, but of all these I was able to raise only two males. Almost all young Antelopes, upon exercising a little patience towards them, will suck an artificial teat, and after a while learn to drink. I used a horn like a powder-horn, but open at the large end, and with a quill inserted in the small end so that it projected an inch, and wrapped around with soft cloth; I fed them on cows' milk, new and sweet. At first, for a few days, they are exposed to have an attack of diarrhoea or dysentery. If they escape this they live a long time, one, two, or three months, growing slowly ; but at the end of this time all the female kids and almost all the male ones become diseased, have scrofulous inflammation of the joints, get a cough, become lame and poor, and finally die, after lingering some weeks. I never yet have known of a female Antelope being raised artificially ; the males are more hardv, and with care nearly all can be raised. I think that cows' milk is not sufficient nutrition for them ; for the milk of the Antelope is very rich and sweet, like that of the goat; and I should expect to succeed better in raising them on goats', or even by enriching cows' milk with sugar, boiled cornmeal, &c. In the spring of 1855, of seven or eight that I caught, I succeeded in starting only two kids, a buck and a doe. They both grew well for several months, were gentle and great pets, when the doe became diseased with the scrofulous trouble of which I have spoken, and, after three or four weeks, died of phthisis pulmonalis, as a sectio cadaveris showed. The male, however, continued in good health; and in July or August his horns began to appear, very small at first, conical, and concealed in the hair of the forehead. They grew to be perhaps | of an inch long and quite blunt, when they dropped off, in the month of December I think, leaving small mammillary knobs that projected from the frontal region about \ an inch, and were slightly villous with silky hairs. Within a day or two, or a week at most, these |
