Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
J.R.Alcorn
1940
Antilocapra
W Slope Granite Range, 6000 ft., 13 mi. N and 6 mi. W Deephole,
washoe Co., Nevada. August 30, 1940
This morning I got up early,
circled the floor of the valley looking
for Antelope and as I was returning
to the small spring I saw what
appeared to be Antelope coming down
the gentle WNW sloping hill. I jumped
into a deep wash and was
making my way up hill when
I met my father who had just
been over on the ridge to the N.
We looked about for the Antelope
and saw them, to my surprise, below
us. There was five in this one
bunch and the sun was shining
on them as they stood broad
side. I slipped back into the wash
and ran down hill to - within 350 yds.
of the animals and they were
still standing broad side in the
same place. My automobile was near
the spring and these antelope were
apparently standing in this place
looking at the car. They stood
out conspicuously from where
we were. To see us they had
to look directly toward the sun.