184 BLACK-TAILED AND MULE DEER. 
Biack-TaIteD Derr (Cervus Columbianus, 
Richd. ).—This deer has by far the widest range, 
and is more numerous than any other species of 
the smaller deer. It is found on Vancouver 
Island, on a great many of the islands in the 
Gulf of Georgia, on the plains of Nesqually, 
eastern and western slopes of the Cascades, and 
through the entire district intervening between 
the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains ; south it 
extends through Oregon into California. I saw 
herds of them on the Klamath plains. 
The Sumass Indians had a very ingenious 
mode of coaxing the male within shot during the 
hunting season. They make a call or whistle 
from the hollow stalk of a water-plant, and hiding 
in the bush imitate the cry of the doe; by this 
artifice they entice the male to come close to them. 
Their favourite resort seems to be in the timber, 
about open plains, prairies, and on high ground, 
during the summer months, but descend for 
shelter and protection into the valleys on the 
approach of winter and snow. Their fawns are 
dropped in May, two being by no means unusual. 
Mute Derr (Cervus macrotus, Say).—I am 
far from sure as to the existence of this curious 
deer west of the Cascades, neither do I think it 
is at all plentiful on the eastern side. The speci- 
