l66 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, 



at about one hundred and fifty yards. As the rifle cracked the 

 deer jumped into the air and ran. On going to the spot no 

 sign of deer or blood could be found, but I soon found its trail 

 and had followed it but a few feet when the deer jumped from 

 the brush almost under my feet, giving me for an instant a 

 decided fright. It was so badly wounded that it went but a 

 short distance and fell. It was necessary to shoot it again. By 

 7 o'clock we had our deer in camp and dressed. Our thirst for 

 blood was somewhat satisfied with this killing. But two days 

 later I again took a ramble through the ridges back of camp 

 and shot a second deer. This gave us all the venison we could 

 possibly use, and as we learned later was all the deer the law 

 allows one to kill in one season in Colorado. A couple of days 

 later, Will saw a buck with six or seven prongs, and we made 

 some effort to find and kill this fellow, but he was too wary. 

 While looking for this monarch of the forest I came up on one 

 side of a log, and a fawn about a year old jumbed up on the 

 other side and ran about fifty yards, then turned and gazed at 

 me in wonder. It afforded a beautifui shot, but was too pretty 

 a picture to mar with blood, so the rifle was not raised. During 

 the same morning a number of does were started and could easily 

 have been killed, but we needed no meat, and were not of the 

 number who kill for sport alone. It seems remarkable that 

 the deer should have remained in this region, although Will 

 had been firing the shot gun at birds aimost continually, and 

 I have taken the time of entomologists to tell of my first deer, 

 not only because of its interest to me, but because the story 

 proves that there are yet places in the United States where the 

 deer are abundant, more abundant than I had supposed them 

 anywhere outside of Yellowstone Park." Within a day's ride 

 of this spot, in the Flat Top Mountains, elk are still abundant, 

 but we had traveled far enough, had accomplished all and more 

 than we anticipated in the way of game and, moreover, there 

 was a miserable mountain to be crossed if we continued the 

 journey, so we made this the turning point, and after a week 

 in camp here started home. 



Although several trips were made for insects nothing of value 

 was found here except two Catocala groteiana, a few Euprepia 

 utahensis and one Pseudohazis nuttallii. 



