hook or prong from which the name of the animal

is derived. Their colour is dark yellowish brown.

They are so fleet that not one horse in a hundred

can overtake them; and their sight and sense of smell

are so acute that it would be next to impossible to kill

them, were it not for the inordinate curiosity which

we have before referred to. The Indians manage to

attract these simple little creatures by merely lying

down on their backs and kicking their heels in the air,

or by waving any white object on the point of an arrow,