Page 36 - Albert's Buck Horn Saloon

25.—African antelope. This animal is a native of Abys- 33.—A roe deer or Capicolus Vulgaris is small, being only
sinia, in eastern Africa, where it bears the name of Beni Israel two and one-quarter feet in height at the shoulder. The antlers
or children of Israel. It is one of the smallest of antelopes, be- rise up straight without any prong, projecting forward over
ing hardly fourteen inches in height at the shoulder and is so the eyes, and forked rather than branched, throwing out one
slightly made that it appears too fragile to live. Its legs are prong in front and one or two behind, according to age. The
long and not thicker than a lady's finger ; the body is covered antlers from the base to the first fork are thickly covered with
with fine, long hairs, gray at the base, and a warm red at the wrinkles. The head is short, the neck slender and longer than
top. A broad white stripe runs above and below the eye. the head ; the eyes large and lively ; the ears are of a moder-
26.—Hartebeest (Alcephabus Coma). May easily be ate length and stand wide apart. The thick coat of the roe deer
known by the peculiar shape of the horns, which are lyrate at alters according to the season ; in summer the back and sides
their commencement, thick and heavily knotted at the base, and are a reddish brown, and in winter of a brownish gray color;
then curve off suddenly nearly at a right angle. Its general but the lower side of the body is always lighter colored. The
color is a grayish brown, diversified by a large, nearly trian- fawns have white and yellow dapplings. This animal is found
gular white spot on the haunches, a black streak on the face, in all Europe. It can execute astonishing leaps. The food of
another on the neck, and a brown patch on the outer side of the the female is nearly the same as that of the stag, but it selects
haunches. It is a large animal, being about five feet high at the the more tender plants.
shoulders. The hartebeests are spread over a large range of 34.—South American deer horn.
country, being found in the whole of the flat and wooded dis- 35.—This deer had perhaps the heaviest horns that were
tricts between the Cape and the Tropic of Capricorn. ever grown, the horns weighing eight and one-quarter pounds
27.—African antelope (refer to No. 25). when the animal was killed.
28.—A fair-sized Colorado elk. 36.—This deer horn has forty-two points, and I consider it
29.—The caribou or American reindeer has never been my second best horn. Of the deer family it is certainly a
brought under the sway of man, nor used for any domestic pur- beauty, and is greatly admired by all who have the pleasure of
pose. It lives in herds varying from ten to three hundred in seeing it.
number, and is an object of chase for both white and red hunt- 37.—Texas star made of rattlesnake rattles. This design
ers. represents 216 snakes.
30.—This specimen was found by a hunter in the wilder- 38.—An extremely large doe head.
ness of Texas. It appears that some former hunter placed this 39.—An extraordinarily fine deer head, horns having 26
horn in the fork of a tree and it remained there so long that prongs. This animal was killed on the same hill where the
the tree had grown around the horn. This being such a rare famous 78-point was killed two years later.
occurrence, they cut the tree down and brought it to me. This • 40.—A beautiful set of deer horns having fifteen prongs
specimen has proved to be quite a curiosity, and is admired by and an unusually wide spread.
all who see it. 41.—A very large deer head and horns, being far above the
31.—A deformed cow foot. average.
32.—Same as No. 29. 42.—A very strange growth of deer horns, having immense