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This shows the track of a large male walk- 

 ing. Each hoof-mark is about 4^ inches long. 

 Had it been five inches it would have meant 

 a very large bull. The track is strictly deer- 

 like in type, but has a little of the roundness 

 of point that is so marked in the domestic 

 cow. At the upper end of the drawing is 

 snow one inch deep. Here no clouts show ; 

 at the lower end it is three inches deep, so the 

 clout-marks are clear. Size is essential in dis- 

 tinguishing the track. The dung pellets, about 

 H X% inch, are also important. 



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The mule deer tread cannot be distinguished 

 with certainty from that of white-tailed or 

 coast deer; yet it averages larger than either 

 of these, and the curious close set together of 

 all four feet while it does its peculiar bovinding 

 is quite unlike wdiat we see in the white-tail 

 track. "These deer are not good runners in 

 the open. On level country in Arizona I have 

 ridden after and readily overtaken parties of 

 I hem within a mile. The moment rough coun- 

 try was reached, however, with amazing celerity 

 a series of mighty leaps carries them away" 

 (see page 456). 



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