In most other respects deer and antelopes are alike.

Naturalists say there is but one species of antelope in North America--the prong-horned (_Antilope Americana_).

When the fauna of Mexico has been carefully examined, I think another will be found.
It is only upon the great prairies of the far west that the prong-horned antelope is met with; and there it is a most shy and timid creature, allowing the hunter only to approach it by cunning and stratagem.

A herd is sometimes hunted by the Indians into a "pound," or "surrounded;" but even then their fleetness often enables them to escape; and so laborious an undertaking is it to capture them thus, that the plan is but seldom adopted, where any other game can be obtained.

The easiest mode of taking the antelope is when it is found attempting to cross a river--as its slender limbs and small delicate hoofs render it but a poor swimmer.