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course, knows that the horses and cattle which 

 feed on his range divide themselves up into little 

 bunches, each of which selects some special area 

 where they spend all their time, rarely moving far 

 from it, except to make journeys to water; or, at 

 some change of the seasons, to migrate from sum- 

 mer to winter range or back again. In domestic 

 stock this attachment to locality is strongly 

 marked, and it is a common thing for animals 

 that have been driven to a range hundreds of 

 miles distant from that on which they have been 

 accustomed to feed, to travel back toward their 

 old haunts as soon as they are turned loose. I 

 have known cases where one-third of a large 

 bunch of horses, driven to a new range four or 

 five hundred miles away, were a year later gath- 

 ered again on their old home range. It is a mat- 

 ter of common experience for horses that escape 

 from owners, travelling at a distance from the 

 home range, to take the back trail and return 

 to it. 



Among our larger game animals a similar con- 

 dition of things prevails. White-tail deer are 

 greatly attached to particular localities, and when 

 undisturbed, confine their wanderings within 

 very narrow limits. Even if thoroughly fright- 



